The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, ...

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

After the 2021 coup, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan with a production worth between US$ 589 million and US$ 1.57 billion. The ...

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

CHANGLANG, 10 Mar: In a major crackdown on illicit opium cultivation along the Indo-Myanmar border, a joint team comprising ...

A bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

he asks. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates there are more than 3.5 million people displaced in Myanmar. But fleeing conflict zones to farm opium does not ...

Chatra: Four drug peddlers, including a woman, were arrested with 2.5 kg of opium valued at Rs 2 lakh, Chatra sadar police ...

Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Thursday said the ongoing ‘War Against Drugs’ campaign has got encouraging ...