Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of ...

In 2023, Myanmar became the world’s biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tonnes of the narcotic – more than double that of previous leader Afghanistan after the Taleban government ...

Opium production in Myanmar has fallen for the first time since a military coup in 2021, the UN said on Thursday, but the country remains the world’s biggest producer of the narcotic. Poppies ...

Last year Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons of the narcotic -- more than double that of previous leader Afghanistan after the Taliban government cracked down ...

Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel seasoning mix, a pantry item with a cult following in the U.S., has been banned in ...

Remote Sensing Data, Ground Verification MARSAC said the best season to plant and harvest opium poppy is from September to February. Sometimes, the harvest extends till March-end. "We usually ...

"Farmers’ income from selling the 2023 opium harvest to traders fell by more than 92 per cent from an estimated US$1,360 million for the 2022 harvest to US$110 million in 2023," it said.

Opium sales generated $1.4 billion for Afghan ... “Let us grow just one harvest to fix our houses, rebuild our roofs,” Khana Gul, a village elder, demanded angrily. “We’re not even growing ...

Narcotics Department, Mandsaur has finished the opium weighing process. The CPS approach, on the other hand, is used for weighing the harvest. 19k farmers produce over 8 tonnes of opium The entire ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kabul: Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on harvesting poppies, even as farmers in some parts of the country began ...

The ban comes during opium harvesting season in southern Afghanistan, and a Taliban spokesman said that farmers could be jailed and their crops burned if they harvested poppy. The order also ...

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 the plant that ...