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22:03, 16-Mar-2019
UN helping Myanmar farmers make the switch from opium to coffee
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Opium has been a cash crop in northeastern Myanmar's Shan State for a long time, but some of the farmers who have traditionally grown poppies now have something else brewing. About 90 percent of illicit opium in the world is grown in Afghanistan. The second biggest source of the drug is Myanmar, with Shan state its main production hub. Our correspondent Dave Grunebaum in Yangon has more.