{"id":52173,"date":"2023-01-27T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/27\/myanmar-opium-production-surges-since-coup-un-finds"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:48:05","slug":"myanmar-opium-production-surges-since-coup-un-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52173","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar opium production surges since coup, UN finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict and economic hardship force farmers to rely on opium, with poppy cultivation rising by 33% in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Production of opium has flourished in Myanmar since the military\u2019s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year, according to a UN report.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, in the first full growing season since the military wrested control from the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, Myanmar saw a 33% increase in the cultivation area to 40,100 hectares, according to the report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/27\/myanmar-opium-production-surges-since-coup-un-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict and economic hardship force farmers to rely on opium, with poppy cultivation rising by 33% in 2022Production of opium has flourished in Myanmar since the military\u2019s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past ye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[372,1057,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-drugs-trade","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52173\/revisions\/52174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}