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Vientiane, Laos - Germany has donated 2.3 million dollars to encourage Lao farmers to switch to alternative crops from opium, cultivation of which grew 19 per cent last year in the Asian country, media reports said Thursday. The German government provided the funds to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which has been implementing crop substitution projects for opium farmers in Laos and Myanmar for more than a decade, the Vientiane Times reported.

 

"The generous funding from the German government will enable more former poppy farmers to sustainably stop growing the crop, as well as improving food security and reducing poverty in Oudomxay province," UNODC Laos representative Leik Boonwaat said.

 

UNODC projects have on the whole been deemed a success, weaning thousands of previous opium farmers away from the illicit crop over the past decade.

 

However, last year saw some back-stepping in Laos. According to an UNODC survey, the country's opium cultivation increased 19 per cent last year from 1,600 hectares in 2008 to 1,900 hectares in 2009.

 

The increase was attributed to the jump in opium prices on the domestic market.

 

"It's all about supply and demand," Leik said, "In Laos, the price is high because of the scarcity of supply, while demand remains high." In Laos opium sells for 1,327 dollars per kilogram, up 8 per cent from 2008, compared with 317 dollars in Myanmar and 48 dollars in Afghanistan, now the world's leading provider of the drug.

 

Leik estimated that there were at least 12,000 opium addicts in the land-locked, communist country.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311185,germany-gives-23-million-dollars-to-cull-laos-opium-cultivation.html#ixzz0ganmUO4Q


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Vientiane, Laos - Germany has donated 2.3 million dollars to encourage Lao farmers to switch to alternative crops from opium, cultivation of which grew 19 per cent last year in the Asian country, media reports said Thursday. The German government provided the funds to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which has been implementing crop substitution projects for opium farmers in Laos and Myanmar for more than a decade, the Vientiane Times reported.

 

"The generous funding from the German government will enable more former poppy farmers to sustainably stop growing the crop, as well as improving food security and reducing poverty in Oudomxay province," UNODC Laos representative Leik Boonwaat said.

 

UNODC projects have on the whole been deemed a success, weaning thousands of previous opium farmers away from the illicit crop over the past decade.

 

However, last year saw some back-stepping in Laos. According to an UNODC survey, the country's opium cultivation increased 19 per cent last year from 1,600 hectares in 2008 to 1,900 hectares in 2009.

 

The increase was attributed to the jump in opium prices on the domestic market.

 

"It's all about supply and demand," Leik said, "In Laos, the price is high because of the scarcity of supply, while demand remains high." In Laos opium sells for 1,327 dollars per kilogram, up 8 per cent from 2008, compared with 317 dollars in Myanmar and 48 dollars in Afghanistan, now the world's leading provider of the drug.

 

Leik estimated that there were at least 12,000 opium addicts in the land-locked, communist country.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311185,germany-gives-23-million-dollars-to-cull-laos-opium-cultivation.html#ixzz0ganmUO4Q

 


what is the first step of Ministry of forest and agrictule would do with those money??
buy seeds?
providing agriculture course for locals?
provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system?


 



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what is the first step of Ministry of forest and agrictule would do with those money??
buy seeds?
providing agriculture course for locals?
provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system?

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I am sorry I dont mean to offend you. I just find the statement amusing: "provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system"

I know you mean irrigation system. But if you come to think it,  if money is not well spent, it'll surely result to an irritating system aww

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The government should make it logical and produce ton of them and then export around the world that is good business and good money and it is better than begging for foreign aid money year after year just to survive since Laotian are not well educated and skill worker but Laotian could grow opium . So Laotian worker don't have to go Thailand to work and become prostitutes. Export to Vietnam and China and Russia so Laos will have enough money to pay back the money that Laos owe them.

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what is the first step of Ministry of forest and agrictule would do with those money??
buy seeds?
providing agriculture course for locals?
provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system?

____________________________________________________

 

I am sorry I dont mean to offend you. I just find the statement amusing: "provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system"

I know you mean irrigation system. But if you come to think it,  if money is not well spent, it'll surely result to an irritating system aww

 


Lastly I was lazy, today I am lazy too, thank for correcting my spells, Yes you are right if those money not well spent, it will result as in irritating system?aww

 



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Anonymous wrote:

 

 

what is the first step of Ministry of forest and agrictule would do with those money??
buy seeds?
providing agriculture course for locals?
provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system?

____________________________________________________

 

I am sorry I dont mean to offend you. I just find the statement amusing: "provide tequnical support for soil and irretation system"

I know you mean irrigation system. But if you come to think it,  if money is not well spent, it'll surely result to an irritating system aww

 


Lastly I was lazy, today I am lazy too, thank for correcting my spells, Yes you are right if those money not well spent, it will result as in irritating system?aww

 


          Try again... and get it right this time.no

 



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I like this comment,

The government should make it logical and produce tons of it and then export around the world that is good business and good money and it is better than begging for foreign aid money year after year just to survive since Laotian are not well educated and skill worker but Laotian could grow opium . So Laotian worker don't have to go Thailand to work and become prostitutes. Export to Vietnam and China and Russia so Laos will have enough money to pay back the money that Laos owe them.

Ya, India, Turkey, and the biggest, Tazmania a part of Australia. Why not open up the market and allow Laos to compete. 

Another thought, say you live far from the road, growing rice, corn, vegetables, and raising pigs, and cattle. The mountain soil is thin, hard to grow food, but if you grow opium you can get over $1000 per kilo when you get to town. With $1000 you can buy medicine, school books, clothes from China, lights, everything.

People have been smoking opium for hundreds of years in Laos. It was legal until 2000.



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Anonymous wrote:

I like this comment,

The government should make it logical and produce tons of it and then export around the world that is good business and good money and it is better than begging for foreign aid money year after year just to survive since Laotian are not well educated and skill worker but Laotian could grow opium . So Laotian worker don't have to go Thailand to work and become prostitutes. Export to Vietnam and China and Russia so Laos will have enough money to pay back the money that Laos owe them.

Ya, India, Turkey, and the biggest, Tazmania a part of Australia. Why not open up the market and allow Laos to compete. 

Another thought, say you live far from the road, growing rice, corn, vegetables, and raising pigs, and cattle. The mountain soil is thin, hard to grow food, but if you grow opium you can get over $1000 per kilo when you get to town. With $1000 you can buy medicine, school books, clothes from China, lights, everything.

People have been smoking opium for hundreds of years in Laos. It was legal until 2000.


         Opium could be used in pain medication for cancer patient and other medicine as well .

 



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