{"id":60494,"date":"2023-12-12T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/myanmar-opium-biggest-producer-overtaking-afghanistan-unodc-study"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:02:41","slug":"myanmar-becomes-worlds-biggest-producer-of-opium-overtaking-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60494","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar becomes world\u2019s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opium production in Afghanistan slumped an estimated 95%, according to a UN report<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar became the world\u2019s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government\u2019s crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar produced an estimated 1,080 metric tonnes of opium \u2013 essential for producing heroin \u2013 this year, according to the latest report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/myanmar-opium-biggest-producer-overtaking-afghanistan-unodc-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opium production in Afghanistan slumped an estimated 95%, according to a UN reportMyanmar became the world\u2019s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government\u2019s crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[46,1057,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/60494","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60494\/revisions\/60495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}