Ranchi: Khunti police on Wednesday evening seized around 650 kilograms of poppy bulbs, which is used in making opium, during ...

Women and children of poppy ... a farmer can plant corn, cotton, or beans in the same soil. During years when demand is high, a farmer might make as much as six times more from opium than he ...

The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds, is generally considered the true opium plant. When the capsules ... can be put up in any shape or size that is desired.

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod ... but the hardy poppy promised "just enough for a livelihood". "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from ... to privatize ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

The first British poppy crop was destroyed by hares In the 19th Century, British horticulturalists who were incentivised by the booming opium trade ... from the poppy plant and with illustrations ...

The economic crisis and war have pushed farmers and displaced people to turn to opium poppy cultivation, despite the meagre earnings. The flow of money finances both the military junta and ethnic ...

Iran where much of the illegal poppy plants supplying the opium are grown. With the Iranians focusing on the supply, the western agents are focusing on the trafficking. Out of an unfortunate ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...