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Sughd treats the northern districts and towns of Sughd Region of Tajikistan, along the Syr Darya, as one cannabis growing area, in the Fergana Valley growing region. It covers the sown plants and the wild stands reported there and the yearly Kuknor operation. The province as an administrative unit is the subject of Sughd Region; Tajik drug law is treated at Tajikistan.
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Why Sughd is a growing area
- The UNODC survey of 1998–1999 reports cannabis by province and puts 95 per cent of the 3.2 hectares found in Tajikistan in "Leninbad" (sic), the province now called Sughd (Illicit drug trends in Central Asia, 2008, p. 23). The report says that most Tajik cultivation was a few plants for the grower's own use.
- Sown cannabis has been found in two of the area's districts since: Zafarobod (2008) and Jabbor Rasulov (2015).
- Wild stands have been reported between 2010 and 2026 from Bobojon Ghafurov, Mastchoh, Asht, Spitamen, Zafarobod and Isfara districts. These reports are of destruction by the police; none found so far describes local people gathering the plants.
The name
The bare name goes to the growing area. The province is Sughd Region, called Leninabad Region until 2000; the UNODC report prints the old name as "Leninbad". The area covers only the northern part of the province.
Growing status
The status is Active. Sown plants were found in 2008 and 2015. No source says that growing has ended.
Extent and border
- The border is a proxy: the districts of Zafarobod, Spitamen, Jabbor Rasulov, Mastchoh, Ghafurov (Bobojon Ghafurov), Konibodom, Asht and Isfara and the towns of Khujand, Buston and Guliston, as mapped in OpenStreetMap, about 9,400 km², the figure in the infobox.
- The southern districts of the province (Istaravshan, Shahriston, Devashtich, Ayni, Kuhistoni Mastchoh, Panjakent), south of or within the Turkestan Range and in the Zeravshan valley, are not drawn in. Apart from one yard of 76 plants in Ganchi (Devashtich) district in 2015, no source read names a growing place there.
- Zafarobod, Spitamen, Jabbor Rasulov and Mastchoh lie west of Khujand, beyond the narrow western end of the Fergana Valley.
- The infobox point (40.43, 69.96) is the centre of the drawn area. The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Accessions
No accession on the wiki comes from the area. The Uljanova sheets of 1969 (Isfara district and Chorkuh) are held by the Vienna (W) and Lund (LD) herbaria and are not accessions here.
Sources
- Asia-Plus (21 June 2010): the article gives two different counts for the park of Chkalovsk (now the town of Buston, not the Buston of Mastchoh district), and also names the rest house at Kayrakkum (now Guliston); neither is used.
- Avesta (8 July 2015): the police of Bobojon Ghafurov district reported about 190,000 wild plants at 14 sites since 20 May; not used, as the regional total for the first stage is given instead.
- Avesta (6 June 2016): 77,000 wild plants (505 kilograms) on uncultivated land in Asht district, found with volunteer patrols; not used.
- Khovar (12 September 2008): names the two men who grew the Zafarobod plants; the names are left out of the article.
- Ganchi (Devashtich) district, outside the area, had a case of 76 plants grown in a yard in June 2015 (Avesta).