Scraping opium resin off a seedpod ... but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder.

The discovery comes just a day after 140 opium ... poppy plants were found on campus. The university administration has formed a five-member committee to investigate how the plants were grown ...

In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing, the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and ...

Show more Show less Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of opium ... the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers ...

Pekon (Myanmar) (AFP) – Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod ... but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get ...

When he resettled, his usual crops were no longer profitable, but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks people grow poppy ... Myanmar's opium production was ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... When he resettled, his usual crops were no longer profitable, but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A displaced resident working in an illegal poppy field in Pekon Township, on the border of ...