In a good-faith gesture, the deadline was extended—giving some farmers enough time to first harvest the opium, then collect their check from ISAF. ("Did they turn the poppies over in mid-stride ...

Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons. While opium poppies have long flourished in ...

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

It may be sown in hills sufficiently wide apart to admit of cultivation, and harvesting the opium as the Capsules mature. Experiment alone will suffice to determine what soils and what section if ...

TASS/. The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan has risen by 7% reaching a record high in 2014, Afghan media reported on Wednesday citing UN experts. The total area of the cultivation has ...

Opium can be stored for up to 10 years without ... The regime allowed farmers to bring in their harvest in spring 2022, the expert says. It was only in the fall of 2022, when farmers wanted ...

Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing ... millions rely on for pain medication worldwide. While the 2022 harvest was largely exempted from the decree, the Taliban have strictly ...

Last year, Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons. While opium poppies have long flourished in rural Myanmar, production soared following the 2021 military ...