In the renewed war against illegal poppy cultivation in the southern Churachandpur district, illegal poppy plants were ...

Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the obvious: For the outside world's largesse to continue, the national economy's addiction to opium must end. The poppy fields must ...

A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in ...

The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...

You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the fighting ... who were incentivised by the booming opium trade attempted to establish an opium poppy crop ...

Opium can be stored for up to 10 years without ... and typically do not grow in the same fields where poppies were previously grown, Bjelica says. It also takes years before such crops begin ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

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For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May ...