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 ...

KABUL — Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year ... between farmers and brigades sent to destroy their poppy fields resulted in several deaths in northeastern Badakhshan.

That cereal is once again filling fields, as its germination cycle coincides with that of poppy ... permanente (Afghanistan: a permanent conflict). The effects of the Taliban’s opium ban ...

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 ...

the most in Afghanistan and far ahead of the second-place Western region, which turned out 24%. Opium-poppy production was stable in southern Afghanistan, but the country saw marked increases in ...

Underneath a busy bridge in Kabul, among piles of discarded rubbish and a stream of filthy water, lives a drug-ravaged community of homeless men. "It's no place for a human being," said Khudadad ...

The drug bazaar that powered this part of southern Afghanistan has ... at how productive Khaliq’s poppy fields were. “I bet there’s over half a tonne of opium here,” Khaliq recalled ...

UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan ... there in opium cultivation. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.

ZARANJ, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (Xinhua ... In similar operations, police apprehended a drug smuggler and discovered 66 kg opium poppy from his possession in Kang district of Nimroz province ...