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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"If I could, I'd only harvest coffee, as it allows me to work ... particularly affected by the cultivation of poppy, from ...

As part of the ongoing war on drug campaigns, the security personnel on Tuesday chipped down 15 acres of illegal poppy cultivation before its harvesting at Kapao hill range in Manipur’s Senapati ...

The opium is refined into heroin in factories hidden ... But with no end in sight to conflict, he did think that this year's harvest could be even bigger, in his locality at least.