{"id":47193,"date":"2024-05-09T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/central-bureau-of-narcotics-plans-to-conduct-gis-mapping-to-monitor-opium-cultivation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:15:23","slug":"central-bureau-of-narcotics-plans-to-conduct-gis-mapping-to-monitor-opium-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/central-bureau-of-narcotics-plans-to-conduct-gis-mapping-to-monitor-opium-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Bureau of Narcotics plans to conduct GIS mapping to monitor opium cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Narcotics<\/a> plans to conduct a geographic information system (GIS) mapping survey<\/a> for monitoring of opium cultivation<\/a>, a move aimed at checking illegal trade<\/a> in the commodity in the country, said people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The bureau will float a fresh request for proposal to hire a managed service provider for conducting the survey and implementation of the GIS platform by June-end or July, they said.<\/p>\n

It had scrapped the earlier RFP, invited in February, due to poor response. The proposed survey is being considered following a surge in illicit cultivation of opium<\/a> in the country despite a crackdown by law enforcement agencies<\/a>, according to the people.<\/p>\n

There have been reports of farmers cultivating opium along with other crops, especially in the Northeast, Rajasthan<\/a> and Bihar<\/a>, they said. “There is a surge in the cultivation of illegal opium and, in the last few months, the law enforcing agencies have destroyed about 7,000 acres of production in Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur and Rajasthan,” said a senior official, who did not wish to be identified. Asked about the total illegal opium cultivation and trade in the country, the official said, “It is difficult to give exact acreage as farmers are cultivating it in patches mixed with other crops. It is difficult to identify, and hence GIS mapping<\/a> will help.” India<\/a> is among the 12 countries authorised by the United Nations<\/a> Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) to produce opium and the only country to produce gum opium. Its legal cultivation is carried out in selected tracts under licence, issued annually, in Madhya Pradesh<\/a>, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

Licences<\/a> are issued to eligible cultivators by the Central Bureau of Narcotics.<\/p>\n

Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan alone account for 80% of India’s opium production.As per the latest data, the number of opium cultivators eligible for the licence are 54,500 in Madhya Pradesh, 47,000 in Rajasthan and 10,500 in Uttar Pradesh.The Centre is planning to increase the number of licences to 145,000 to meet the increasing demand for pharmaceutical preparations<\/a> for palliative care and other medical purposes, both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n

Processed opium is used in products such as morphine and codeine oxycodone, largely used for pain management, cough syrup and palliative care and for cancer patients. The government offers \u20b9950-3,500 per kg of opium depending on the quality, but its price in the black market could be as high as \u20b91.5 lakh per kg.<\/p>\n

In the international market, opium prices range between $355-375 per kg, leading to smuggling<\/a> and illegal drug markets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Narcotics plans to conduct a geographic information system (GIS) mapping survey for monitoring of opium cultivation, a move aimed at checking illegal trade in the commodity in the country, said people familiar with the matter. The bureau will float a fresh request for proposal to hire a managed service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109989097,imgsize-24142.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[4626,23570,3905,47912,9795,20073,47915,47911,47913,273,41237,23078,7980,45712,23851,28150,14083,47910,47914,1925,5850,1342,13834,7204],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47195,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47193\/revisions\/47195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}