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Nepal: Marijuana Cultivated In 40 Pc Land In Parsa

Kathmandu Post, The (Nepal)

Thursday 11 Jan 2001

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BIRGUNJ, Jan 10 - A recent estimate in Parsa shows that about 40 percent
of the cultivated land in the district is under marijuana cultivation.
The situation is so grim that the latest police team deployed to destroy
the crop returned after they were forced to abandon the task.

Speaking to the The Kathmandu Post correspondent of CDO Dolakh Bahadur
Gurung said, "It was not completely destroyed, the task has been handed
over to the local police posts to finish it."

Gurung claimed that the three teams deputed to do the task had been
successful in destroying about 8000 ropanis of marijuana cultivation,
while only 200 to 400 ropanis remains to be destroyed. The local
journalists are not ready to believe the administration's claim that
marijuana cultivation has almost been destroyed. Says Shatrughan Nepal
of the Nepal Journalist Federation, "The administration has denied
security to journalists trying to investigate marijuana plantations in
the villages. This effectively proves the existence of illegal
cultivation."

Observers believe that marijuana is still grown in at least 5000 ropanis
in about a dozen villages, despite official attempts to curb the
cultivation. According to a police source, the last batch of about a
hundred men deputed to put an end to marijuana cultivation was ordered
to go back before the task was completed, as smugglers had bribed the
police administration against further action.

According to the cultivators, one ropani of land produces 30 kilograms
of quality marijuana, which fetches around Rs two thousand a kilo in the
market. Marijuana is planted during the months of July and August and
is harvested by January.

A cut marijuana plant must be burnt to prevent it from being used as a
psychotropic drug. Critics allege that officials simply get the crop
cut in the name of destroying it, which in a way becomes a harvest-help,
as the crop is still good for use.


 

 

 

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