Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

has worked to promote alternative livelihoods for local farmers in Houaphanh and other provinces particularly affected by the ...

In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogramme, a tenfold growth from $75 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing, the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing, the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and ...

The economic crisis and war have pushed farmers and displaced people to turn to opium poppy cultivation ... In addition, intensifying fighting in growing regions and declining global demand ...

Dibrugarh: Tinsukia police on Monday detained a 60-year-old man, Jiten Baruah, for growing opium poppy inside the Hahkhati Reserve Forest in the Sadiya area of Tinsukia district. The accused had ...

SP Ankit Jaiswal said that 144 kg wet and dry marijuana plants, 280.5 kg wet and dry opium poppy capsules ... discovered opium and marijuana plants growing with the mustard crop," he said.

Myanmar's opium production was previously second only ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in their villages and fled to the jungle are ...