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 by conflict.

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 by conflict. The 35-year ...

Large-scale smuggling of areca nuts from Myanmar is also seriously affecting farmers in Assam and Tripura, where betel nuts grow in large quantities. The Assam government, due to illegal imports ...

Individuals worked in the compound guarded by armed militia & the money earned was converted to crypto with help of finance centres that facilitated the conversion, it is learnt.

Show more Show less Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of opium in 2023 Farmers say they have little alternative to poppy cultivation in the wake of Myanmar's 2021 coup ...

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 ...

“Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced,” he said. “Residents who can’t live in their villages and fled to the jungle are working in poppy fields.” In Myanmar’s ...