Cultivation
This section provides a lot of information on global
opium and heroin production throughout the world. We
will update it as we can; it is badly in need of updating.
However, the data are valid. Things have not changed
that much in the last ten years. If you have questions
or need more information, please contact us. Just...
- Licit Opium Production: Traditional

- Roughly 60% of licit opium is produced in the
traditional manner of making cuts in the pods and
collecting the opium that oozes out.
- Licit Opium Production: Non-Traditional
- The new method for "opium" production extracts
the alkaloids directly from poppy straw. Many
of the alkaloids found in opium cannot be isolated by
this method, however. But it is very effective at
producing morphine which is the most important opioid.
- Illicit Opium Production
- Illicit opium production is much more stable than
the licit production. The illicit market is much more
free than the licit market in an economic sense, making it
more responsive to fluctuations in supply variables.
- Total Opium Production
- On average, only 20% of all the opium on the global
market is produced with government licensing.
- Licit Opium Producing Countries: Traditional
- The licit production of opium in the traditional
manner is dominated by India, which is responsible for
almost 95% of all of the opium so produced world wide.
- Licit Opium Production Products
- Most of the opium produced licitly is used to make
morphine and codeine; these two compounds make up over
90% of all the substances produced.
- Heroin Retail Prices
- Heroin retail prices have been cut in half over the
past decade.
- Heroin Wholesale Prices
- Heroin wholesale prices have been cut in half over the
past decade.
- Cultivation Data
- This is all of the data we have in text format.
by Dr. H © 2002
Last Modified: 7 January 2004
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