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Why the area is on the map
The Irrawaddy, 4 December 2025, reports that several villages in Ayadaw Township and on its border with Myinmu have grown cannabis since 2022–23, with more than 30 acres across six neighbouring villages by residents' estimate. It quotes a farmer from Myinmu, an official of the Ayadaw Township administration, a member of a local defence force and the National Unity Government's spokesperson. No other report read places cannabis growing in Ayadaw, and the report names no village. Every figure on the page is the report's, and the acreages are residents' estimates.
The words the report uses
The report says the villages "have shifted to growing hemp", and elsewhere calls the crop cannabis, weed and marijuana, priced by the viss of "dried leaves and buds". The article calls it cannabis.
Growing status
The status is Active: the report gives cultivation from 2022–23 and describes it as still growing in 2025. The administration's burning of fields in 2023 did not end it, in the report's own account. No first or last year is set, since the status is Active.
How the border is drawn
- The border is the union of two townships in OpenStreetMap, Ayadaw (relation 5996572) and Myinmu (relation 5996755), about 2,000 km², the figure in the infobox. The report places the villages in Ayadaw Township and on its border with Myinmu and quotes a Myinmu farmer; since it names no village, both townships are taken.
- Myinmu Township is in Sagaing District, not Monywa District; the page gives Monywa District, Ayadaw's own.
- The coordinates are those of Ayadaw town. The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Sources
- The Irrawaddy, 4 December 2025, read in full in a copy saved on 19 October 2026.
- Khin Thein Oo's rainfall study of the Dry Zone (2016), read in full.
- Gazetteers. Scott and Hardiman's Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States (1901) has entries for A-ya-daw, among them a village of 1,491 people and a revenue circle in the Budalin township of the Lower Chindwin district; neither its entries nor the statistical B volume of the Burma Gazetteer for the Lower Chindwin (1925) mention cannabis. Its Sagaing district entry lists "brown hemp, paiksan" among the crops, a name that points to kenaf, not cannabis.
- Not yet read. Reports of cannabis-field destruction in Sagaing Region in the state press (The Global New Light of Myanmar); a report on drug cultivation in Myanmar since 2021 by ISP-Myanmar. Either may give village names or later years.