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

Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis, according to the ...

Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in their villages and fled ...

Beed police raided a farm in Dharur taluka and seized illegally cultivated opium plants valued at over ₹4.32 crore. The ...

"Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he ... for control of local resources and the lucrative drug trade. Aung Naing says poppy earns only a slightly higher profit than food crops like ...