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Osh treats Osh Region, the city of Osh and Batken Region of Kyrgyzstan as one cannabis growing area, in the Fergana Valley growing region. It covers the wild stands, the sown plots and the eradication raids reported there. The provinces as administrative units are the subjects of Osh Region and Batken Region; Kyrgyz drug law is treated at Kyrgyzstan.
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Why Osh is a growing area
- The UNODC survey of 1998–1999 reports cannabis by province and finds 15.8 hectares of wild growth and cultivation in Osh oblast (Illicit drug trends in Central Asia, 2008, p. 23).
- Akmatova (2024), from the archive of the Osh oblast police, names Uzgen and Kara-Suu districts among those where the raw material of anasha was mainly gathered, and describes the mapping and destruction of wild stands in Kara-Suu, Uzgen, Nookat and Aravan districts in the mid-1980s.
- Batken Region is part of the area: it was part of Osh oblast until 1999, and it has the most recent reports of cannabis grown: crops near Andarkhan in Leilek district (2020) and a sown plot at Kyzyl-Kiya (2026).
The name
The bare name goes to the growing area. The provinces are Osh Region and Batken Region. A page on the city would be titled Osh (city).
Growing status
The status is Active. Cannabis crops were found near Andarkhan in 2020 and a sown plot at Kyzyl-Kiya in 2026. The older record runs from the 1980s (gathering of wild hemp for anasha) to the surveys of 1998–1999. Since 2000 the reports from Osh Region itself are of wild stands mown and burned by the police; no report of sowing or gathering there after 2000 has been found. No source says that growing has ended.
Extent and border
- The border is a proxy: Osh Region (OpenStreetMap relation 178020), Osh City (19059632) and Batken Region (178019), about 46,000 km², the figure in the infobox.
- The area is much larger than the land under cannabis. The surveys of 1998–1999 found 15.8 hectares in Osh oblast; the interior ministry gave 6.5 hectares for Osh Region and 22.5 hectares for Batken Region in July 2024.
- The proxy runs south over the Alay and Turkestan ranges into the Alay valley. No source names a place there.
- The Uzbek and Tajik enclaves inside Batken Region (Sokh, Shakhimardan, Vorukh) fall inside the drawn outline; they belong to Fergana Region and the Sughd area.
- The infobox point (40.04, 72.35) is the centre of the drawn area. The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Sources
- Akmatova (2024): the figures for 1984 are given twice in one sentence (213,681 hectares surveyed and 66.53 destroyed; 223,316 surveyed and 64.44 destroyed), without saying how the two pairs differ. The article gives the first pair. Akmatova places Toktogul district in Talas oblast; it is in Jalal-Abad Region today.
- Olcott and Udalova (2000): the "season for cannabis" is not explained; it is given as printed.
- 24.kg (11 September 2020): the Russian original calls the Andarkhan find посевы (crops or sowings). It does not say whether the plants were sown. The English version of the report calls it "cannabis crops".
- Turmush (24 September 2026): read from the article's summary line; the full text, with the number of plants, is behind a paywall.
- 24.kg (7 July 2026) and Time.kg (10 July 2026) appear to report the same raid in Kadamjay and Leilek districts (7 hectares surveyed). The article cites each for the figures it alone gives.
- 24.kg (18 March 2024) reports a house in Kyzyl-Kiya fitted out for growing hybrid marijuana indoors. It is not used, as it concerns indoor growing of introduced varieties.
- Ismailov (2007), a newspaper article on the "Batken corridor" and cannabis grown among sunflowers cited by Botoeva (2016), could not be found.