Madaya
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| Madaya | |
|---|---|
| No longer grownSources say it is no longer grown here | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Dry Zone |
| Geography | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Province/State | Mandalay Region |
| Coordinates | 22.22, 96.12 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 1,100 km² |
| Terrain | Northern margin of the Dry Zone; approximately Madaya Township |
| Growing history | |
| Grown | until 1891[1] |
| Why it stopped | Banned |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Madaya is a former cannabis growing area in Madaya Township, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, in the Dry Zone. In 1891 the Deputy Commissioner of Mandalay found hemp cultivated "to a small extent in some parts of the Madaya and Pyniulwin townships" of his district. Measures were taken at once. By the time he gave evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission no hemp was grown in the district at all.[1]
Setting
Madaya receives 30 to 35 inches (760–890 mm) of rain a year; its eastern part, at the wetter margin of the Dry Zone, receives more than 35 inches.[2] The places in the district where hemp was grown in 1891 had 30 to 50 inches (760–1,270 mm) of rain a year and lay between about 300 and 3,600 feet (90–1,100 m) above sea level.[1]
Cultivation and its end
K. G. Burne took charge of Mandalay district in 1891. Measures taken that year against opium smuggling brought the hemp to light: it was grown in gardens, compounds and cleared yards round houses. There was no field cultivation. Individuals had plants for their own use, generally, he believed, as medicine for people and animals, chiefly cattle, though the drug may also have been smoked. Burmese officials told him that cultivation had gone on under the Burmese kings; he knew of no prohibition of it then.[1]
The excise law had been extended to Upper Burma in 1888.[1] With the Commissioner's knowledge Burne issued orders warning that the cultivation was illegal and that growers would be prosecuted. One or two prosecutions followed as an example. By the time he gave evidence, the reports of all his officers showed that the cultivation no longer existed in the district.[1]
Accessions
No accessions documented yet.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. K. G. Burne, Deputy Commissioner, Mandalay". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VII: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan, and Burma. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Burma witness no. 7, pp. 381–382 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Khin Thein Oo (2016). "Spatial Analysis of Rainfall Variation in Dry Zone of Myanmar". Yadanabon University Research Journal. 7 (1) – via Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal.