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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung6mon
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, but heroin flows to Europe continue unabated
A farmer in the southern province of Helmand ... However, when the Taliban took action against poppy cultivation in May of this year, thousands of angry villagers opposed the government forces.
The Diplomat10d
Getting Out of Afghanistan’s Opium Quagmire
According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...
朝日新聞社3mon
U.N. drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise
somebody has to fill the markets and that may push the Myanmar opium poppy farmers to increasingly engage in opium poppy cultivation.” In 2024, however, UNODC says the fighting at the heart of ...
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In Myanmar’s fields of fear, farmers sow opium poppies for survival
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...
Opium Farming Takes Root In Myanmar's War-Torn Landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.