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Akto treats the oasis strip of Akto County, in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, as a cannabis growing area. It sits in the Southern Xinjiang growing region, beside the Kashgar and Artux growing areas.
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Why the area is on the map
- Akto County narcotics control office (April 2024): offenders in Akto have interplanted cannabis among field crops year after year.
- Akto County police (阿克陶县公安, 3 January 2024): a man grew cannabis in his own courtyard; 627 g found in his cattle pen.
- Kizilsu police (克州网警, 25 July 2024): three cannabis plants in maize fields reported to the Yumai police station.
- A repost of a Xinjiang Legal News item (Bilibili, 10 September 2024): 11 plants grown at a home, uprooted.
- Zhang and He (1992): cannabis from Akto among the nine places of production in southern Xinjiang that they analysed.
The reports name the county and, once, the Yumai police station. None names a village or says whether the plants were on the plain or in the mountain valleys.
Growing status
The status is Active: the police reports describe cannabis grown in Akto County in 2023 and 2024, and the county narcotics office describes interplanting as a recurring practice. No source read says that growing there has ended.
How the border is drawn
- The border outlines the oasis strip of Akto County (OpenStreetMap relation 2710678), the county the sources name, round Akto town and Yumai on the western edge of the Tarim Basin, beside the Kashgar area. It takes the land that the ESA WorldCover 2021 land-cover map classes as cropland or built-up. Gaps of up to about 6 km are closed so that fields, orchards, villages and towns join into one oasis, and holes inside it are filled. The result is one part of about 740 km², the figure in the infobox; the county as a whole is about 24,000 km², most of it the high Pamirs.
- The county's other farmland is left out: Oytagh (奥依塔克, about 150 km²), about 30 km to the west, and seven farmed valleys of the eastern Pamirs in the townships of Kizil-tau (克孜勒陶), Charlung (恰尔隆) and Tar (塔尔). No case read places growing in them.
- The border lies inside the Southern Xinjiang border and does not overlap the Kashgar, Yarkand or Artux borders.
- The land-cover map shows where fields and settlements were in 2021. It is not evidence of where cannabis is or was grown; the places the sources name are given in the article.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points. Check points: Akto town and Yumai inside; Kashgar city, Shufu, Yengisar and Artux outside.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (version 200, 10 m), © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium, licensed CC BY 4.0 (esa-worldcover.org).
The name
The page takes the name of the county, Akto. The Chinese name is Aketao (阿克陶).
Sources
- Akto narcotics control office (2024): read in full on its NetEase repost (稿件来源 克州阿克陶县禁毒办).
- Akto County police (2024): the WeChat article of 阿克陶县公安, read in full; WeChat gives no stable link to it, so the citation names the account, title and date. The same case, without the account of growing, is on the Bilibili account 新疆禁毒 (5 January 2024).
- 克州网警 (2024): read in full on Baidu Baijiahao (source line 阿克陶县公安局).
- star星视频 (2024): a short-video account's repost of a 新疆法制报 item; the original piece was not found. It is cited for the case as the repost describes it.
- Zhang and He (1992): the journal's PDF; p. 1 read on the page image. The first place of production is printed 洛甫, which is taken to be Luopu (洛浦).