NEW BREED OF FEMINISED DAGGA TAKING OVER ESWATINI

PIGG’S PEAK – EmaSwati no longer have to go to the mountains to cultivate dagga as there is a new kind of the illicit herb which can now be grown inside the comfort of their own homes.

The latest breed of dagga is known as skunk and is said to be easier to grow, even for people living in urban areas.
Dagga is currently illegal in the country though there are efforts being made to legalise it for medicinal purposes.

The dagga, whose seeds are smuggled from Holland, can be grown indoors, or in areas such as green houses.
The smuggled skunk seeds are feminised, meaning that they produce only female plants.

No seeds are produced since the plants are female and this ensures that maximum yield of the dagga is produced.
The dagga grows to a height of about 200 centimetres and to metre when mature unlike the local plants which can reach heights of about 2 metres and result in law enforcement agents, such as police, noticing it. When well taken care of, the plant can have a yield of up to one kilogramme though sometimes it can be as low as 100 grammes.

A kilogramme of the same dagga can fetch as much as E8 000.
This is twice what normal ‘Swazi Gold’ fetches locally.

When skunk is smuggled through to Cape Town in South Africa (SA), it can fetch several times more as it is then packaged for American and European markets for the multi-billion dollar industry of its medicinal properties.

Since the dagga does not really need land, this means that there is no need for growers to constantly nurture the soil for purpose of growing dagga.

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