China Donates Opium-substitute Crop Seeds to Myanmar

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China Donates Opium-substitute Crop Seeds to Myanmar

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China has donated agricultural crop seeds to the authorities of Kokang, Shan State Special Region-1 of Myanmar, to help substitute for the region's poppy cultivation under the Myanmar-China drug control program.

According to a report of Myanmar's Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control available here Thursday, the donation, made by the National Narcotic Control Committee (NNCC) of China on Tuesday in Laukkai of Kokang region, included 11 tons of potato, 600 kilograms of China lablab bean and 400 kilograms of green peas.

Attending the donation ceremony were NNCC Deputy Secretary- General Wan Gan and Deputy Director-General of the Myanmar Police Force Brigadier-General Zaw Win.

According to the report, the NNCC has also conducted short-term courses on agricultural methods two times for farmers in the region.

Since the 1990s, China has strengthened effective cooperation with Myanmar, and through labor force, capital and technical assistance, it helped Myanmar grow agricultural and economic crops to replace poppy in northern Myanmar, pushing the socio-economic development of the region.

According to incomplete statistics, China's Yunnan Province has injected more than 300 million yuan (about 36 million US dollars), cultivating 25,000 hectares of various opium-substitute crops in northern Myanmar and sending experts to the area to have trained nearly 1,000 Myanmar agricultural technicians.

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