The @UNODC_SEAP 🇲🇲 #Myanmar Opium Survey 2022 estimates that the average opium yield in 2022 was 19.8 kg/ha.
— UN Geneva (@UNGeneva) January 26, 2023
That's an increase of 4️⃣1️⃣% compared to 2021.
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BBC: Opium production in Myanmar surges to nine-year high
The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar, rising to a nine-year high, according to the UN.
It touched nearly 795 metric tonnes in 2022, nearly double the production in 2021 - 423 metric tonnes - the year of the military coup.
The UN believes this is driven by economic hardship and insecurity, along with higher global prices for the opium resin that is used to make heroin.
The coup plunged much of Myanmar into a bloody civil war that still continues.
"Economic, security and governance disruptions that followed the military takeover of February 2021 have converged, and farmers in remote, often conflict-prone areas in northern Shan and border states, have had little option but to move back to opium," said Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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2 comments:
I heard you can't find tar heroin in Frisco anymore. Only Fentanyl. I think the world wide opium market is shrinking while the pharmaceutical drugs like fentanyl are taking the market. following police reports in my town north of Frisco, the perps always have crank or fentanyl, never heroin.
What, drones can't deploy round up... or Govts want the drugs
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