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Myanmar Opium

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2012 file photo released by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), villagers harvest opium at a field in Myanmar's Shan state. Official efforts to stamp out opium production in Myanmar are falling flat because poor farmers don't have alternative ways to make a living, a U.N. agency said Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its annual Southeast Asia Opium Survey that Myanmar will produce 870 metric tons of opium in 2013, remaining the world's second-largest grower after Afghanistan. That would be a 26 percent rise over 2012 production. (AP Photo/UNODC, File)

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