Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

He thinks alluvial soils are best. The young plant is very tender ... stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less trouble ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country ... to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...

The first British poppy crop was destroyed by hares In the 19th Century, British horticulturalists who were incentivised by the booming opium trade ... from the poppy plant and with illustrations ...