For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.
"Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon ...
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 ...
Unlike synthetic opioids produced using chemicals in a lab, heroin and morphine are ... edicts ordering peasants to harvest more poppy, one of the few plants that flourished in the dry, dusty ...
For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...