`` Villages threatened with food insecurity and poverty need sustainable alternatives , or they will have little choice beyond growing this cash crop out of desperation , '' he added . Opium production in southeast Asia 's `` Golden Triangle '' increases for eighth year . The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has released a new report that shows the global opium poppy cultivation increased by almost 50 percent from 2010 to 2012. Myanmar accounts for the vast majority of the region 's poppy cultivation .
Opium production in southeast Asia 's `` Golden Triangle '' increases for eighth year . The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has released a new report that shows the global opium poppy cultivation increased by almost 50 percent from 2010 to 2012. Myanmar accounts for the vast majority of the region 's poppy cultivation .