MYANMAR is actively conducting the narcotics eradication operations in cooperation with the United Nations, neighbouring countries, ASEAN member states, countries in the Mekong region, member countries of the BIMSTEC, and international drug control organizations. As part of these efforts, Myanmar is carrying out the destruction of poppy fields, which is one component of the broader anti-narcotics campaign.
In this regard, Tatmadaw personnel, Myanmar Police Force members, those from the relevant departments from the combined team, including the General Administration Department, the Forest Department and the Department of Agricultural Land Management and Statistics, local people’s militia troops and resident ethnic people destroyed blooming poppy plantations on 9 and 10 December. They destroyed 35 acres of 2.5 feet high poppy plantations in the field, some two miles southwest of Lonaung Village of Hsinchayphone Village-tract in Loilem Township, Shan State (South), 25 acres of 3.5 feet high poppy plantation, two miles southwest of Sanphu Village, 30 acres of three feet high plantation, three miles southwest of Taungnauk Village in Taungnauk Village-tract, and 25 acres of three feet high plantation, three miles and four furlongs west of the village, totalling 115 acres. A plan is underway to continue the destruction of the poppy plantations. — MNA/TTA
