Mexico: opium poppy crops destruction 2008-2018
In 2018, approximately 22.7 thousand hectares of opium poppy crops were eradicated in Mexico. The land area occupied by poppy crops that were destroyed in the Latin American country decreased from nearly 30 thousand hectares registered a year earlier. Between 2008 and 2017, the eradication of opium poppy in Mexico increased by more than 120 percent, in a mostly continual trend.
