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 ...

Until 2022, Afghanistan was the country with the largest opium poppy cultivation area in the ... to grow opium after some 20 years. "Our fields are no longer as fertile as before," Asadollah ...

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 ...

Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency, threatens the stability of the country and leads to growing drug addiction in Afghanistan and the wider world. The poppy plant poses the ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

The Taliban's recent moves in Helmand province are causing panic among civilians. Discover how their actions threaten ...

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 ...

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.

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been destroyed, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview with TASS.

Although Milk of Paradise is presented as a “history of opium” in its subtitle, there is more to it than just the history of the latex of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Rather ...