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Jalal-Abad treats Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan as one cannabis growing area, in the Tian Shan growing region. It covers the wild stands, the sown plots and the eradication raids reported in the province. The province as an administrative unit is the subject of Jalal-Abad Region; Kyrgyz drug law is treated at Kyrgyzstan.
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Why Jalal-Abad is a growing area
- The UNODC survey of 1998–1999 reports cannabis by province, and finds 333.5 hectares of wild growth and cultivation in Jalal-Abad, second to Issyk-Kul (Illicit drug trends in Central Asia, 2008, p. 23). The Bulletin on Narcotics (2006, p. 83) places most of the 3,005 hectares identified in Kyrgyzstan in Jalalabad province and in four districts of Issyk-Kul.
- Cannabis is both gathered wild and sown here. Botoeva (2016, p. 70) writes that people in Jalal-Abad began to cultivate it on their own plots. The press reports plots and pastures in Bazar-Korgon (2007), Suzak and Ala-Buka (2010) and Toktogul (2013) districts, and gathering on the Ketmen-Tyube pasture (2015).
- The area is drawn on the whole province because the sources report the province as a whole and name places in several of its districts.
The name
The bare name goes to the growing area. The province is Jalal-Abad Region. A page on the city would be titled Jalal-Abad (city). Djalal-Abad (Botoeva) and Jalalabad (Bulletin on Narcotics) are spellings used in the sources.
Growing status
The status is Active. The sources report sown plots in 2007, 2010 and 2013, gathering in 2015, and raids in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2024. No source says that growing has ended.
Extent and border
- The border is a proxy: Jalal-Abad Region as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relation 178024), about 34,000 km², the figure in the infobox. The province runs from the Fergana Valley in the south-west to the mountain basins of Toktogul and Toguz-Toro in the north and east.
- Most of the province is not under cannabis. The estimates run from 333.5 hectares (1998–1999) to about 610 hectares (2015).
- The infobox point (41.57, 72.46) is the centre of the province. The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Accessions
The one accession from the province, Botbaeva s.n., Ketmen-Tyube (1960), is not attached to the area. Its label records a plant in the foothills of the Ketmen-Tyube basin and says nothing of cultivation or gathering.
Sources
- Zelichenko (2003): read on Lib.ru, which gives no page numbers. "Uch-Terek" district is printed as given; it is not one of today's districts of the province. Zelichenko does not name the six districts where gathering was heaviest.
- Botoeva (2016): the statement that Jalal-Abad hashish is not made from wild plants (pp. 247–248) rests on an interview with Zelichenko in 2014 and on newspaper reports, which Botoeva cites as Ismailov (2007) and Vecherniy Bishkek (2013). Her bibliography dates the Vecherniy Bishkek item to 2014 and gives it an Issyk-Kul subject. Neither article was read.
- Azattyk (18 August 2015): the 610-hectare estimate is not attributed in the article. 24.kg (17 August 2015) reports the same arrest and places it on the Ketmen-Tyube pasture.
- 24.kg (27 August 2019): the English version of the report omits the name of Aksy district, which the Russian original gives. The page cites the Russian original.
- Kaktus.media (12 July 2024): the Jalal-Abad figures name no district.
- Dublin Group (2019): a regional report of the Council of the European Union says that the drug-control service of the province destroyed about 600 bales of wild cannabis. It is not used, as it gives no date or district.