"...In 2012, the annual opium survey in Myanmar covered Shan State (North, East, and South Shan), and Kachin State, which constitute the country?s principal opium poppy-cultivating regions. The UNODC rapid assessment survey found no evidence of opium poppy cultivation in the Special Regions in Shan (Wa Special Region 2, Kokang Special Region 1 and Special Region 4). However, limited satellite imagery and findings from ground surveillance did find evidence of limited opium poppy cultivation in Chin, though the region was not fully covered in the survey. The total area under cultivation in 2012 was estimated at 51,000 hectares, representing an increase of one sixth on the 2011 level of 43,600 hectares and the sixth consecutive year-on-year increase since the low 2006 level of 21,600 hectares...This increase in opium poppy cultivation was not confined to a specific region, but was actually observed in East, North and South Shan, as well as in Kachin. The area under cultivation continued to be dominated by areas in South and East Shan, which continued to account for more than three quarters of the estimated total, but the increase was most pronounced (in relative terms) in North Shan, where the area rose by nearly half (from 4,300 hectares in 2011 to 6,300 hectares in 2012), and in Kachin, which registered an increase of more than a third (from 3,800 hectares to 5,100 hectares). This explains why the share of the total attributable to Kachin and North Shan (collectively) edged up from 19% in 2011 to 22% in 2012. In absolute terms, East Shan, North Shan and South Shan all registered an increase of approximately 2,000 hectares. The increase in East Shan followed a relatively stable trend over the preceding two years, while the increases in each of the other regions represented a continuation of the recent trend. These figures do not include cultivation in Chin, which, based on limited data, was assessed to be in the order of several hundred hectares in 2012..." [the primary URL does not contain the Lao PDR section, which can be found in the secondary link]