Myanmar Overtakes Afghanistan as World’s Top Opium Producer

Myanmar has surpassed Afghanistan to become the world’s largest producer of opium, after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation and the production of drugs, according to a United Nations report.

Opium production in the Southeast nation, wrecked by an increasingly bitter civil war, shot up by 36% to 1,080 metric tons this year, the highest since 2001, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report Tuesday.
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