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No choice: Myanmar's displaced become poppy farmers for survival / 36YK6CX
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In the remote areas of Myanmar’s Pekon Township, farmers and people displaced by fighting are turning to cultivating poppy flowers in a bid to make ends meet.
"Before the coup, I was just an ordinary farmer and growing paddy in my village," said Aung Hla who fled fighting in Moe Bye. "After the coup, we didn't have any work to do and we couldn't get good prices from selling other crops... I turned into an opium farmer."
Myanmar in 2024 became the world's largest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons of the narcotic -- more than double that of previous leader Afghanistan after the Taliban government cracked down on poppy cultivation. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES