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.

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

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 ...

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.

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. The 35-year ...

with 400 poppy plants found at a private university in Rai, Sonepat, leading to the arrest of a gardener. The discovery comes just a day after 140 opium plants were seised from a university campus ...

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj for illegally cultivating opium poppy on rented land, with police seizing plants and pods worth an estimated Rs 1.5 crore, officials said on Tuesday.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer ... the collected resin from a small trough onto a leaf plate. Before the coup, which ended a brief experiment ...