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

Vadodara: Dahod police raided a poppy plantation in a village in the Randhikpur taluka of the district and seized contraband ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Police have destroyed poppy farms on 13 acres of land in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid said ...

Afghan police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in north ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs including 15 kg heroin and arrested 12 individuals on the charge of involvement ...

Security forces in Manipur, in collaboration with forest authorities, have dismantled 50 acres of illegal poppy cultivation.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Police have destroyed poppy farms on 13 acres of land in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...