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Where did the British East India Company cultivate most of the opium sold to China?
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opium trade
The clipper ship Le-Rye-Moon, built for the opium trade, 19th-century wood engraving from the Illustrated London News.
The British East India Company cultivated the majority of the opium it sold to China in the Indian province of Bengal.1
In 1773, the company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in this region, where it developed methods to produce the drug both abundantly and at a low cost. This production was a central component of a "triangular trade" system, which allowed the company to repatriate its Indian revenue by using the proceeds from opium sales in China to purchase large quantities of Chinese tea for the European market.123