Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium, harvesting 1,080 tons. While opium poppies have long flourished in ...

In a good-faith gesture, the deadline was extended—giving some farmers enough time to first harvest the opium, then collect their check from ISAF. ("Did they turn the poppies over in mid-stride ...

Many farmers who had left opium behind during the period of relative stability before the military takeover returned to growing opium, Masood Karimipour, UNODC Regional Representative for ...

Indore: Neemuch police on Monday arrested a farmer for illegally cultivating opium and marijuana in a farmland where mustard ...

A day after the arrest of a farmer for opium cultivation in Handia of trans-Ganga area, the Ghoorpur police also arrested two people for the same offence. Around 58 kilograms of opium plants ...

Jharkhand Police destroying the paddy field of illegal opium cultivation in the dense forest at Gudri and Bandgaon village ...

TASS/. The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan has risen by 7% reaching a record high in 2014, Afghan media reported on Wednesday citing UN experts. The total area of the cultivation has ...

It may be sown in hills sufficiently wide apart to admit of cultivation, and harvesting the opium as the Capsules mature. Experiment alone will suffice to determine what soils and what section if ...

For lack of better alternatives, most farmers are now growing wheat instead of poppies. The yield per hectare for this crop is many times lower than that of opium. Bjelica, who interviewed farmers ...

Recent tests go far to show that the quality of the opium raised in several sections of the country is good. The editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy has made an assay of some laudanum made ...