In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

The banned opium poppy crops worth around Rs 40,000 was recovered from the farm of a woman identified as Mangal Dadaso ...

While opium poppies have long flourished in rural Myanmar, production soared following the 2021 military coup and subsequent conflict between the ruling junta and armed resistance groups, devastating ...

Panchkula: An opium smuggler was arrested here with over 700gm of opium, a day after Holi. He has been identified as ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a ...

Annual plants are those which grow, flower, and set seed and die all in one year. They are synonymous with summer – think of cornflowers, sweet peas, love-in-a-mist, and sunflowers. If you start your ...

Dibrugarh: Tinsukia police on Monday detained a 60-year-old man, Jiten Baruah, for growing opium poppy inside the Hahkhati Reserve Forest in the Sadiy.

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.