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| | Three Gorges Probe - China wages war on opium in the Three Gorges area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | In Fengjie alone, opium poppies were being cultivated on an estimated 1,000 mu (67 hectares) of farmland, with the harvest worth about 100 million yuan (US$12 million) a year, the newspaper said. |
 | | "Growing drug crops can bring in more than 10 times the income of other crops, so people take the risks," Liu Qixue, head of Fengjie's Bancang village, was quoted as saying. |
 | | A farmer in Bancang told the New Beijing Daily that attempts had been made on six occasions to coerce him to grow opium poppies. |
| www.threegorgesprobe.org /tgp/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=11074 (830 words) |
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