Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

The continued rise in drug production and trafficking from Afghanistan requires immediate and coordinated action. The UNODC meeting represents a critical opportunity for international stakeholders to ...

In 2024, opium prices reached ₹65,486 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from ₹6,535 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits" to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the ...

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 ...

But after the Taliban government launched a crackdown, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan ... "We are working in poppy fields with anxiety and fear. We feel unsafe." Opium cultivation and production ...

Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the ... “We are working in poppy fields with anxiety and fear. We feel unsafe.” Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased slightly between 2023 ...