Kutkai Township
Kutkai
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Kutkai Township is a
Geography
It shares the border with
It has rain from May to October and average rainfall of 70 inches (1,800 mm) in 119 days a year. Its attitude is over 4,400 feet (1,300 m) above sea level and its temperature is not over 30 °C (86 °F). It is 7.06 square miles (18.3 km2).[4]
Economy
Kutkai Township's major business is agriculture and livestock breeding. Paddy, corn, groundnut, sesame, sunflower, black gram, green gram, pigeon peas, cotton and sugarcane are grown. tea, walnut, coffee, rubber and tapioca are grown as poppy substitutes. It has 92,491 acres of arable lands. Paddy fields are about 16,882, other crops are 36,645 acres, hilly farmlands are 6,850 acres and gardens are 31,869 acres.
It has 11,145 acres of forest reserved, 469,169 acres of protected forest and 6,160 acres of teak plantation. About 44% of township area is covered with forests.
Drugs trade
Kutkai Township is also a major center of the drug trade in Myanmar. 44 counter-narcotics raids conducted between 20 February and 9 April 2020 yielded over US$200 million in illicit drugs and precursor chemicals, including 200 million tablets of
Politics
The Kachin Defense Army (KDA), also known as the Kaungkha militia, a splinter group of the Kachin Independence Army is active in the township.[7][8] In 2010, the KDA was converted into a Border Guard Force.[8]
In the lower house of Myanmar's national legislature, the
Demographics
2014
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1973 | — | |
1983 | — | |
2014 | 101,334 | — |
Source: Ministry of Labor, Immigration, and Population data |
The
Services
There are 4 high schools, 1 high school (branch), 5 middle schools, 3 middle schools (branch), 20 post-primary schools and 102 primary schools.[4] There are 2 hospitals of 25 beds, 3 hospitals of 16 beds, 7 rural health care centers, 35 rural health care centers (branch) and 2 station health care centers.[4]
References
- GoogleEarth
- ^ Map of Kutkai Township[permanent dead link]
- ^ M-G Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d "Kutkai, a township with mountain ranges". MRTV-3. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ^ "Myanmar Army Seizes Drugs, Detains Leaders in Raid on KIA Offshoot Group". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ^ "Whereabouts of two Kachin militia leaders unknown after Naypyitaw summons". Kachin News Group. 2010-08-04. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03.
- ^ a b "Myanmar Army Seizes Shan State Militia Chiefs Over Drugs Bust". The Irrawaddy. 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ^ "In Myanmar, politics makes a comeback". Inside Story. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ "ဦးတီခွန်မြတ် (ကွတ်ခိုင် မဲဆန္ဒနယ်)". Pyithu Hluttaw (in Burmese). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ "Amyotha Hluttaw Constituency Boundaries 2015 Elections" (PDF). Myanmar Information Management Unit. 17 July 2015.
- ^ "ဦးညီစိန်". အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော် (in Burmese). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ a b c d "Kukai Township Report" (PDF). 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. October 2017.