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Opium Acreage
Opium Acreage
According to sources close to Rangoon junta, known as SPDC, the total poppy area in Burma ran to more than a hundred thousand acres during the 1998-99 season:
| Northern Shan State | 65,508 acres |
| Southern Shan State | 32,666 acres |
| Eastern Shan State | 3,222 acres |
| Kachin State | 434 acres |
| Mandalay Division | 15 acres |
| Total | 101,845 acres |
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