Increased heroin production in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar offers business opportunities to GTA crime groups, experts say.
Poppy cultivation’s rapidly increasing as pandemic border restrictions drop, pushing up the spectre of a flood of cheap, deadly heroin onto GTA streets.
Increased heroin production in the Golden Triangle offers business opportunities to GTA crime groups, experts say. “Economic, security and governance disruptions that followed the military takeover of February 2021 have converged, and farmers in remote often conflict-prone areas in northern Shan and border states have had little option but to move back to opium,” Douglas said.
Farmers are now making more money but also grappling with “soaring inflation, a devalued currency, and increasing costs of fertilizers and fuel,” the report adds.concludes there has been a 33 per cent increase in opium production since the military takeover of the country almost two years ago.
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