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The Myanmar authorities destroyed a total of 8,256 hectares of poppy plantations illegally grown in the country in the 2009-10 poppy cultivation season from September 2009 to August 2010, an official daily reported Tuesday. The destroyed poppy plantations included 1.21 hectares' spoiled in a week from Aug. 14 to 20 this year in Loilem township, Shan state-South, said the New Light of Myanmar. During last year's poppy cultivation season, a total of 4,138 hectares of the plantations in the country were wiped out. Meanwhile, in December 2009, Myanmar burned 93 million U.S. dollars worth of seized narcotic drugs in Kengtung, eastern Shan state of the country. The burned drugs included 6.99 million tablets of stimulants, 819 kg heroin, 156 kg opium and 10 kg Ice. Moreover, the Myanmar authorities exposed 189 drug-related cases and punished 317 culprits including 73 women, in June this year, according to a monthly statistics by the anti-drug authorities. Of the total, stimulant tablets cases topped the list with 58 while those of heroin 46, opium 34 and marijuana 13. During the month, the authorities seized 23.3 kilograms of opium, 1.1 kg of heroin and 2.8 kg of marijuana as well as over 176,502 stimulant tablets. Myanmar has been implementing a 15-year plan (1999-2014) to totally eradicate poppy in three phases, each running for five years, and it has now entered into the final five-year phase of the plan. Source: Xinhua
