VIENTIANE: More than 800 families in Huaphan province have shifted from opium poppy cultivation to coffee production, contributing to exports worth over US$1.37 million and planting 800 hectares of coffee trees, which has led to the rehabilitation of 100 former opium addicts.
These encouraging figures were cited in a final report from the Lao-UN Opium Replacement Development Project, according to Lao Security News.
