Major producer: A poppy farmer showing a harvested poppy stem in central Shan state in this file photo. This year, opium poppies were farmed on more than 53,000ha of Myanmar’s soil. — AP
The country’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade- record level, the United Nations said, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets.
War-ravaged Myanmar is a hive of black market activity ranging from illegal mining to Internet scamming and the manufacture of illicit drugs like methamphetamine and heroin.
