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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Assam Rifles with Manipur Police and forest department officials, destroyed approximately 5 acres of illicit poppy cultivation.

We are in receipt of inquiries in regard to the cultivation of poppies, and the manufacture of opium ; it having been suggested by certain agricultural journals that there are various parts of the ...

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 ...

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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 ...