Some organizations are helping but it can not reach out everywhere.
In Burma day by day,many people are trying really hard for their food. They try twice as hard as other countries, but twenty million Burmese still have an insufficient food problem.
It has now been over twenty-six years. During the twenty-six years, the people can not solve the problems. In this poor condition, in Northern and Southern Shan state and Nothern Kachin state, people have been growing opium, and other kinds of drugs in other states. So why do these people grow opium?
Opium is very cheap to grow. People can grow just a little and make enough profit to feed their family. Food farmers must grow on a large scale to make money. This requires education and a large investment of money. Growing food requires buying seed, fertilizer, transportation, farm equipment, etc. So poor, uneducated people can't make enough money growing food on a small scale.
The Burmese Junta government and UN can't stop it completely, because they are only forbidding growing opium, and they don't help the local people with their needs. The farmers could be growing food instead of Opium, but they can't do so alone. This is the biggest weakness of the Junta and UN's plan of forbidding and punishment.
So, small desperate farmers don't care if the Junta and UN forbid opium or not. If the government doesn't really help the people with their needs, they will not save the local people's lives and solve the insufficient food problem. Then the local people will not stop it at all and insufficient food and more opium growing will continue all the time.
