Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will ...

Sunday, April 6, 2008, Modesto Police Officers discovered a large poppy cultivation being grown in the backyard of a family residence inthe 600 block of Paradise Ave. Poppy plants are used in the ...

Kabul's opium throne has shifted east. The Taliban's 2022 ban on poppy farming in Afghanistan has driven cultivation across the border, with neighbouring Pakistan overtaking it as the world's new ...

Guatemalan security forces eradicate opium poppies in a village near Tajumulco, Guatemala, March 20, 2024. The boom in supply and use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl has devastated the trade in opium ...

Myanmar is now the world’s largest producer of opium, according to a United Nations report published Tuesday, overtaking Afghanistan as political turmoil drives more people to poppy farming amid the ...

The Taliban-led government of Afghanistan announced on Sunday that it had banned the cultivation of poppies, a long-time staple of the country’s agricultural sector and a critical source of wealth for ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will ...