Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... When he resettled, his usual crops were no longer ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Pune Police have seized 66 illegally cultivated opium plants from a farm in Alandi Mhatobachi village, Haveli taluka. The ...

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 ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

"Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich ... Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following ...

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