Opium production in Myanmar surges to nine-year high – BBC News

The manufacturing of opium elevated sharply in Myanmar, rising by a 3rd final 12 months, in accordance with the United Nations.

It touched almost 795 metric tonnes in 2022, almost double the manufacturing in 2021 – 423 metric tonnes – the 12 months of the navy coup.

The UN believes that is pushed by financial hardship and insecurity, together with greater international costs for the opium resin that’s used to make heroin.

The coup plunged a lot of Myanmar into a unbroken civil conflict.

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