LOHIT- The ITBP carried out its first procurement of local organic produce under the ambitious Mission Arun Himveer in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district.

Morning is the best time of day to harvest veggies from the garden during the summer heat. Here's when and how to pick summer vegetables so you can enjoy the best harvest.

The problem of Marjah's opium harvest is being discussed intensely by McChrystal's advisers, but none of the proposed solutions has proved satisfactory.

Tajikistan shares a 1,200 km border with Afghanistan that was a major smuggling route for Afghan opium before the Taliban banned opium harvesting so the countries have established transport route ...

The case of a war-torn village in eastern Afghanistan shows how the poppy eradication effort can be undermined by dissent and small acts of sympathy.

Total area of opium cultivation for Afghanistan between 1994 and 2022 from the UNODC’s annual opium surveys. Taliban bans opium in July 2000 and April 2022. Programmes to promote alternatives to ...

Opium cultivation increased sharply in Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the country in 2021, according to a United Nations report that warned of an increase in illicit drugs after a ...

Day laborers can earn upwards of $300 a month harvesting opium from the poppies. Villagers often rely on the promise of the upcoming poppy harvest to borrow money for staples such as flour, sugar ...

Day laborers can earn upwards of $300 a month harvesting opium from the poppies. Villagers often rely on the promise of the upcoming poppy harvest to borrow money for staples such as flour, sugar ...

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on harvesting poppies, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on harvesting poppies, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from… ...

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban announces a ban on the poppy harvest, which seems likely to devastate small farmers during a time of economic free fall.