The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds, is generally considered the true opium plant. When the capsules are about half grown, or three or four days after the flower has ...

The poppy will grow luxuriantly in almost any fine rich soil. It may be sown in hills sufficiently wide apart to admit of cultivation, and harvesting the opium as the Capsules mature. Experiment ...

For lack of better alternatives, most farmers are now growing wheat instead of poppies. The yield per hectare for this crop is many times lower than that of opium. Bjelica, who interviewed farmers ...

Assam destroys poppy plantations worth ₹27.20 crore, Chief Minister compares local cultivators to Pablo Escobar.

Xieng Khuang authorities last week destroyed over 14,100 square metres of opium poppies in Phoukoud district, cut down opium poppy, smashing the plants with wooden sticks and uprooting them to prevent ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder. This week ...

He acknowledges that the poppy field is his. "My father taught me how to grow poppies ten years ago," he says. "Until this year, I was able to produce 60 pounds of opium from my farmland." ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers ... before the military takeover returned to growing opium, Masood Karimipour, UNODC Regional ...

The atsumigeshi poppy can grow 80 centimeters high during spring ... They say more than 10,450 stalks of banned opium poppies, including the atsumigeshi variety, were removed across the prefecture ...

Chatra: Efforts by the police against poppy cultivation are yielding results in Chatra district as villagers have begun ...

Chatra: Following Ranchi and Khunti districts, police efforts against poppy cultivation are yielding positive results in ...