Consequently, opium production shifted south of the Chinese border into the Golden Triangle region. In the late 1940s, as the Chinese Communist Party gained power, it ordered ten million addicts into compulsory treatment, had dealers executed, and opium-producing regions planted with new crops. The arch's top displays replicas of a Thai, a Laotian ( Pha That Luang), and a Burmese ( Shwedagon Pagoda) pagoda Origin A Golden Triangle Monument Arch at Wat Phra That Pha Ngao. While opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar had declined year-on-year since 2015, cultivation area increased by 33% totalling 40,100 hectares alongside an 88% increase in yield potential to 790 metric tonnes in 2022 according to latest data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Myanmar Opium Survey 2022 With that said, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has also warned that opium production in Myanmar may rise again if the economic crunch brought on by COVID-19 and the country's February 1 military coup persists, with significant public health and security consequences for much of Asia. Opium production in Myanmar is the world's second-largest source of opium after Afghanistan, producing some 25% of the world's opium, forming part of the Golden Triangle. The majority of the region's opium is now produced in Myanmar and, to a lesser extent, Laos. Most of the world's heroin came from the Golden Triangle until the early 21st century when Afghanistan became the world's largest producer. The name "Golden Triangle" was coined by the CIA and is commonly used more broadly to refer to an area of approximately 950,000 square kilometres (367,000 sq mi) that overlaps the mountains of the four adjacent countries.Īlong with Afghanistan in the Golden Crescent, it has been one of the largest opium-producing areas of the world since the 1950s. Its geographical limits are the area in which the borders of China, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the Ruak and the Mekong Rivers. The Golden Triangle is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Crescent).
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