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Graphic shows increase in opium production and yields in Myanmar from 2002 to 2023.
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ارتفاع إنتاج الأفيون في ميانمار

By Jordi Bou

January 26, 2023 - قالت الأمم المتحدة إن إنتاج الأفيون زاد بشكل حاد في ميانمار، حيث ارتفع إلى أعلى مستوى في تسع سنوات بسبب الاضطرابات السياسية والاقتصادية منذ تولي الجيش السلطة بعد الإنقلاب قبل نحو عامين.

Production reached nearly 795 tonnes in 2022, nearly double the production in 2021 – 423 tonnes – the year of the military coup.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) believes the growth was “directly connected” to the political and economic turmoil in Myanmar since the military took power in a coup nearly two years ago

The cultivated area in 2022 expanded by a third to 40,100 hectares, while the average estimated yield rose 41% to nearly 20kg per hectare, the highest value since the UNODC started keeping records in 2002, the report said.

Myanmar is the world's second-largest producer of opium, after Afghanistan. The two countries are the source of most of the heroin sold around the world.

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PUBLISHED: 26/01/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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