PHOTOS: Opium production in Myanmar

Posted Jan 19, 2014

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Photos from Myanmar, the second leading producer of opium. Last year, Myanmar produced an estimated 690 tons of opium, compared with 41 tons in Laos and 3 tons in Thailand, the three significant producers in South-East Asia. Myanmar was the world's largest source of opium and its derivative heroin in the early 1990s, but is now ranked second after Afghanistan. Myanmar's northern Shan State, home to several insurgencies including the Shan State Army and United Wa State Army, accounted for 92 per cent of opium poppy cultivation this year, with the remainder located in neighbouring Kachin State, where government troops and the Kachin Independence Army have been fighting since 2011, the report said.

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