Le Cour Grandmaison, Romain; Morris, Nathaniel; Smith, … - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 3, pp. 312-329
of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950-$1,050 dollars) per kilo of … opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion dollars) into the country’s poorest communities, sustaining … that farmers are now being paid around 6000 to 8000 pesos ($315-415 dollars) per kilo of raw opium. Thus the total money …