According to the latest report of the UN Office on drugs and crime (UNODC), opium production is the resurgence in the golden triangle, which borders Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Pipop Chamnivikaipong, Director of statistics and monitoring of drug crops, said in this area, poppy doubled from 2004 to present.200,000 households back poppy cultivation A field of opium in the golden triangleAn official of the drug said that poppy cultivation in Thailand has doubled from 2004-2006. Mr. Pipop said the fight against drugs by Thaksin's Government had contributed significantly reduced opium production in Thailand. But since the coup in September last year, the poppy was less so some growers and smugglers has many advantages. Mr. Pipop predicted poppy production will rise again next year, mostly in the outlying regions of the province Chiang Mai, as the County Om Koi. The growers here now, not like before. It's the old "teen" tempted by profits and also because the Administration seemed not to be in control.Xavier Bouan, an expert of the illicit crop monitoring of UNODC are based in Yangon (Myanmar) said that the production of opium in Thailand last year increased 25%, to 3.2 tonnes; Myanmar increased 46 percent to 460 tons and Laos rose 54% to 9.2 tons. There are about 163,000 in Myanmar families engage in opium, compared to Thailand was about 1,600 families. According to him, about 200,000 families would return to poppy cultivation, unless an alternative employment programmes carried out in immediate Golden Triangle. Mr. Bouan says tend to cause the most anxiety is the southern part of Shan State, where its strongholds the rebels against the Government, occupying up to 64% of the opium output of Myanmar.
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