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UNODC Report: Poppy Cultivation up 21%

Monday, December 3, 2018 8:19

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Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Proceso

UNODC Report: Mexico’s Poppy Cultivation grew
21% between 2015 and 2017

Mexico City: Between 2015 and 2017, the area of poppy crop cultivation shot up by 21% in Mexico, and reached 30,600 hectares last year, according to a study prepared by the Office of the Nations United against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based on satellite images and data from the Mexican government.

According to that report, the cultivation area grew at the same time that, last year, the State forces eradicated 29,962 hectares -32% more than in 2016-; They confiscated 779 kilos of opium gum and 358 kilos of heroin – half as much as in 2015; and destroyed nine laboratories.

In the document, the government even presumed its work of eradicating crops by spraying herbicides from a flotilla of helicopters of the Mexican Air Force, a method which is effective but with very negative health consequences such as were indicated in Colombia.

Goma or opium gum

The document shows that most of the cultivation areas are concentrated in the western fringe of the country, especially in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the states of Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango and the north of Nayarit, as well as in the Sierra Madre del South in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca.

The report states that next year, the UNODC and the Mexican government will submit a report to estimate the potential production of heroin in the country; but nowhere does he mention the regulation plan for the poppy crop announced by the team of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The document urges to have “a better understanding of the socioeconomic aspects, among others, associated with illicit poppy cultivation in the country, it is necessary to formulate policies that can stop its expansion and promote the sustainable development of legal alternatives.”

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/12/unodc-report-poppy-cultivation-up-21.html

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