The poppy will grow luxuriantly in almost any fine rich soil. It may be sown in hills sufficiently wide apart to admit of cultivation, and harvesting the opium as the Capsules mature. Experiment ...

The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds, is generally considered the true opium plant. When the capsules are about half grown, or three or four days after the flower has ...

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.

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 ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the ... previously a leading poppy-growing region, cultivation has been slashed from 120,000 hectares last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...