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 ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s ... “Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by,” he said in rural Pekon township of eastern ...

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 ...

Opium poppy cultivation and production is labor-intensive ... a chronic cycle of debt for rural families, the opportunity to grow a lucrative cash crop was seen as a blessing by many rural ...

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.

In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogram, 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 ...