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

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 ...

The poppy fields must be destroyed. But just as this devoutly Muslim nation did not become the world's leading opium supplier overnight, uprooting Afghanistan's poppy mind-set promises to be a ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium trade in the war-torn nation.

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 ...

Show more Show less Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest ... dozens of workers toil in Pekon's fields Poppy farming earns Myanmar's farmers only slightly more profit than food ...

VIENNA — Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits ... Clashes between farmers and police sent to destroy poppy fields left several people dead last May.

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium ... In May 2024, clashes between farmers and police attempting to destroy poppy fields resulted in several fatalities.

Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan ... dozens of workers toil in Pekon's fields, slicing immature poppy seedpods, which ooze a small amount of sticky brown ...

Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ... dozens of workers toil in Pekon's fields, slicing immature poppy seedpods, which ooze a small ...