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Investment In Joint Ventures And Minority Interests
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Equity Method Investments And Joint Ventures [Abstract]  
Investment in Joint Ventures and Minority Interests

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INVESTMENTS IN JOINT VENTURES AND MINORITY INTERESTS             

Village Fields Hemp USA LLC

    The Company’s equity income (losses) from VF Hemp for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were $38 and ($137), respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were ($175) and ($552), respectively. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss as a result of its involvement with VF Hemp is directly related to the recovery of the $3,385 loan outstanding to VF Hemp.

The Company’s share of the joint venture consisted of the following:

 

Balance, January 1, 2020

 

$

 

Share of net loss

 

 

(552

)

Losses applied against joint venture note receivable

 

 

552

 

Balance, December 31, 2020

 

$

 

Balance, January 1, 2021

 

$

 

Share of net loss

 

 

(175

)

Losses applied against joint venture note receivable

 

 

175

 

Balance, September 30, 2021

 

$

 

 

Summarized financial information of VF Hemp:

 

 

 

September 30, 2021

 

 

December 31, 2020

 

Current assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory

 

$

4,035

 

 

$

4,035

 

Other current assets

 

 

189

 

 

 

302

 

Non-current assets

 

 

857

 

 

 

937

 

Current liabilities

 

 

(1,529

)

 

 

(1,472

)

Non-current liabilities

 

 

(13,715

)

 

 

(13,697

)

Net assets

 

$

(10,163

)

 

$

(9,895

)

Reconciliation of net assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated retained earnings

 

$

(9,905

)

 

$

(3,791

)

Net loss

 

 

(268

)

 

 

(6,114

)

Contributions from joint venture partners

 

 

10

 

 

 

10

 

Net assets

 

$

(10,163

)

 

$

(9,895

)

    

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company exercised a portion of its options and purchased additional shares in Australia-based Altum International Pty Ltd (“Altum”), bringing the Company’s total investment in Altum to 11.9%.          

 

In September 2021, the Company entered into an option agreement whereby the Company received the irrevocable right to acquire an 80% ownership interest (the “Option Agreement”) in Netherlands-based Leli Holland B.V. (“Leli”) upon payment of EUR50,000 (the “Option”). The Option Agreement allows the Company to acquire 80% of Leli’s shares for EUR3,950,000, of which EUR950,000 is due and payable to Leli’s shareholders upon the exercise of the Option and the remainder due in three equal installments subject to the achievement of certain project development milestones. The option is exercisable at the sole discretion of the Company for a period of 5 years.

 

 

 

Leli is one of ten applicants selected to receive a license (subject to customary government approval) to legally cultivate and distribute cannabis to retailers when the Dutch government implements its Experiment to Investigate Closed Cannabis Supply Chains (“Dutch Supply Chain Experiment”). The Dutch Supply Chain Experiment is specified by the Dutch government to be approximately 65,000 kilograms of dried flower annually from the ten approved producers during the first year. Leli and Village Farms plan to construct two indoor CEA production facilities, leveraging Leli’s track record managing complex regulatory and approval procedures in the Netherlands at both the federal and local levels and Village Farms’ three-plus decades as a vertically integrated CEA grower, as well as its extensive experience in cultivation, product development and commercialization in the Canadian legal recreational cannabis market. As the majority owner of Leli, the Company will be responsible for the development of the project and product commercialization throughout the fully vertically integrated business model.