Myanmar is now world's largest source of opium, UN says : vi

Myanmar is now world's largest source of opium, UN says

Myanmar has become the world's largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday. The 95% decline in opium cultivation in Afghanistan after a drug ban by the Taliban in 2022 has seen global supply shifted to Myanmar, where political, social and economic instability brought about by a 2021 coup drove many to poppy farming, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report said.

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