They have now lost a key source of income due to the ban on cultivation. No crop as profitable as opium «Opium is a perfect cash crop,» says Bjelica. There are practically no alternatives ...

Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium.

The provincial government has directed authorities to eliminate opium crops throughout Balochistan.

BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...

"Our fields are no longer as fertile as before," Asadollah told DW. "Even if opium crops had been forbidden in the Quran," Asadollah said, "they would have kept us alive and saved us from famine." ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

the Manipur Police and the Forest Department have seized and destroyed 55 acres of opium crops in the Ukhrul district, a known hotspot for illicit farming. Authorities also burned five temporary ...

They began with eradication, then tried persuading farmers to grow legal crops, and ended with fighter jets bombing makeshift labs made of mud. “At least $200 million of this opium industry goes ...