Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Before the coup, which ended a brief experiment with democracy, Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation because of ...

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 ...

There are five types of plants prohibited in Indonesia, including marijuana, which falls under the category of narcotics.

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.

Fresh opium was generally sold by Myanmar farmers ... offering many job opportunities in the region, we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to," says farmer Shwe Khine, 43.

Sonepat police have arrested a gardener from the World University of Design in Rai after discovering over 400 poppy plants ...