Opium can be a deadly drug but is also a benign pain relief medication. At some point, I got fascinated with poppy and in 2017, researched and realised how potent the crop is.

In early May, which was harvest season, the white poppy flowers turned the plains into a snowfield. Varieties with high harvest yield were created and cultivation technology was transmitted to ...

Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, and detail from WS Sherwill's illustrations, in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Yale British ...

12/06/2024 December 6, 2024. The ban on growing opium poppy has had devastating consequences for Afghanistan's rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives, and calls for ...

Charting over a century of colonial exploitation through forced cultivation of poppy flowers instead of sustainable food crops, the racial ban at opium auctioning houses at Dalhousie, Calcutta ...

Afghan opium cultivation bouncing back amid Taliban clampdown. Poppy planting remains far below pre-ban levels, United Nations reports, despite rise of 19 percent year on year.

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a ...

Rajkot: A 60-year-old farmer, Deha Sasakiya, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for cultivating opium poppies on his farm at Kothi village in Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district. Principal district ...

The history of the poppy flower is a rich one. The popular plant is not only famous for its pretty flowers, but also for its use in the production of a highly addictive drug called opium. It also ...