The poppy fields must be destroyed ... shoulder at the riotous profusion of violet and pink and white, "I'll get about two pounds of opium. Maybe $80." Possessing only the barest sense that ...

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 ...

The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less trouble in obtaining it from the capsules. The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds ...

The flower fields stretch out from the mountain village along most every road -- fluttering patchworks of white and pink and ... It is all opium poppy in these fields, and Myanmar again ranks ...

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A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur's Kangpokpi district and damaged four vehicles, police said.

Imphal/Guwahati: The chief of a key Kuki body in Manipur faces legal action after a mob attacked a small team of security forces when they tried to destroy illegal opium poppy fields in Manipur's ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...