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

Farmer Emilio is forced to work for his cousin gathering the poppy crop while his nine-year-old son Simon befriends a girl of his age. She is obsessed with playing with a puppy dog she can't afford.

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

He acknowledges that the poppy field is his. "My father taught me how to grow poppies ten years ago," he says. "Until this year, I was able to produce 60 pounds of opium from my farmland." ...

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

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

A bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan ...

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.

The “lion’s share” of the country’s opium poppies are grown in the south and southwest regions, where satellite imagery points to the lowest levels of the crop seen since the Taliban last ...

While opium poppies have long flourished in rural Myanmar, production soared following the 2021 military coup and subsequent conflict between the ruling junta and armed resistance groups ...

There are other poppies you might try, as easily germinated as our own native species. The corn or Flanders Field poppy (Papaver ... and are close relatives of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).