UNODC. Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2023 - Cultivation, Production, and Implications

UNODC supports Member States to develop and implement evidence-based rule of law, drug control and related criminal justice responses through the UNODC Regional Programme for Southeast Asia and the Pacific and aligned country programmes and projects. This study is undertaken by the Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme (ICMP) under the framework of the Mekong MOU on Drug Control, which UNODC actively supports through the Regional Programme, including the commitment to develop data and evidence as the basis for countries of the Mekong region to respond to the challenges of drug production, trafficking and use.

To assess the scope of opium poppy cultivation and opium production in Southeast Asia, UNODC has been conducting opium surveys in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) intermittently since 1992 and regularly in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar since 2002. The present report contains the results of the UNODC opium poppy cultivation surveys in Lao PDR and Myanmar covering the 2022/2023 poppy season.

The implementation of the Southeast Asia Opium Survey was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Governments of Japan and the United States of America.

(UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Dezember 2023)

https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/sea/Southeast_Asia_Opium_Survey_2023.pdf