In Myanmar’s fields of fear, farmers sow opium poppies for survival
For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.
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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation ...
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‘We feel unsafe’: Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape
Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. “There is more poppy cultivation ...
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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township ...
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257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid seized at Dulles Airport
Opium poppies are legal in the United States ... in DC against federal plans to privatize USPS All parts of the poppy plant are controlled under Schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances ...
Opium Farming Becoming Trend in Pune Villages? Another Crackdown, Another Farmer Detained
Pune Police have seized 66 illegally cultivated opium plants from a farm in Alandi Mhatobachi village, Haveli taluka. The ...