Mexico: opium poppy crops destruction 2008-2019
In 2019, approximately 23.7 thousand hectares of opium poppy crops were eradicated in Mexican territory. The land area occupied by poppy crops that were destroyed in the Latin American country decreased from nearly 30 thousand hectares registered in 2017. Between 2008 and 2017, the eradication of opium poppy in Mexico increased by more than 120 percent, in a mostly continual trend.