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Koraput treats the cannabis growing area of Koraput District in southern Odisha: the 1893 evidence on the Jeypore Estate and Koraput, the cultivation reported since 2019, and the hashish oil laboratory found in the Jolaput reservoir in 2026. The district as an administrative unit is treated at Koraput District. The region it belongs to is the Eastern Ghats; the growing area across the Andhra Pradesh border is Araku Valley.
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Why the area is mapped
- Al Jazeera (1 January 2025) names Koraput among the six Odisha districts where cultivation was then active.
- The Revenue and Disaster Management Department's letter of 10 August 2026, as reported by OrissaPOST (14 August 2026), names Koraput among the six districts where the police destroyed 36,508.792 acres of cannabis in 2025–26. The Special Task Force review reported by Pragativadi (9 September 2026) names the same six as hotspots.
- OrissaPOST reports cultivation in the district itself: in the Lamtaput and Boipariguda areas and at Bankuli (4 August 2019), and at Disariguda and Lenziguda under Padua police station (5 September 2026).
- The Jolaput Reservoir news item of 28 February 2026, which earlier stored the reservoir as its growing area, concerns a hashish oil laboratory, not a field. It is placed in this area because the laboratory sat inside the district.
Growing status
The status is Active: cultivation in the district is reported in 2019, 2025 and 2026. No source read says that growing in the district has ended.
How the border is drawn
- The border is Koraput District in OpenStreetMap (administrative relation 1984516), simplified, about 8,400 km². It is a proxy: the government and the police report cultivation by district, and the sources place the localities they name (Lamtaput, Boipariguda, Bankuli, Padua and Nandapur, the Jolaput reservoir) in the district.
- No source read gives a narrower extent for cultivation in the district.
- The map point (18.81, 82.72) is near Koraput town; the border is not drawn from it or from any news point.
Sources
- Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894. Taylor (Madras witness 21, pp. 195–196) and Daniel (Madras witness 103, p. 299) are cited from the page images. The heading of Daniel's evidence places Koraput in Vizagapatam District. The OCR text gives Daniel's name as "Dantnt" and his number as 108; the page image reads "N. H. Daniel" and 103.
- Daniel's answer "Ganja and bhang to a small extent in Koraput and Jeypore" is his answer to question 14, which asks whether the products of the hemp plant are prepared in the province, and where; the article reports it as preparation. His answer to question 3, on spontaneous growth ("abundant in Devarapulli and Madugole"), is about wild growth and is not used.
Where the sources disagree
- Koraput and the 2017 audit. The Comptroller and Auditor General's audit of the state excise (Report No. 4 of 2017) names eight districts where cultivation continued from 2014–15 to 2016–17, and Koraput is not among them; the 2025 and 2026 sources name it. The article reports the recent sources.
- Padua and Padwa. OrissaPOST writes Padua and The Times of India Padwa for the police station; the article keeps each source's spelling.
- OrissaPOST, August 2019. The paper ran the same report twice, on 4 and 6 August 2019, with small differences of wording; the article cites the first.