The sequence is the same everywhere. A licence costs money and time before it generates a single legal sale. Cleaner processing requires equipment before it improves recovery. Both costs land on operators who are financed week to week by the buyer they are being asked to leave.
What has actually worked
Programmes that pair a licence with an offtake agreement and a small equipment facility, so the compliance cost is amortised against a contracted sale rather than paid up front out of nothing.
What has not
Training without equipment. Equipment without maintenance. Anything that measures success in workshops attended.
