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 ...

PEKON (Myanmar), March 11 — Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla ...

The sample chapter that he wrote that ended up getting him a book deal to write Desolation: “It’s the opium harvest chapter.

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 ...

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 ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

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 ...