Colombia proposes legal coca, poppy cultivation for medical, scientific use. New decree prioritizes indigenous, public health ...

Addressing an international forum in Beijing, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Sadr Azam Usmani, ...

A summer garden filled with colorful poppy flowers starts in autumn. Either let your poppies dry out and naturally scatter ...

The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

Except in the remote northeast of the country, where the Taliban's control is less strong than in their core areas in the south, poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the ...

In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly ...

Imphal: Illegal poppy cultivation in Manipur has seen a notable decline over the past four years, according to a survey by ...

[VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United Nations and private sources, but the plants are being grown in most provinces despite a ban imposed ...

Ranchi: Khunti administration has urged village heads, including mukhiyas and gram pradhans, to inform govt officials about poppy cultivation in their areas. The local representatives would be ...

The Taliban’s ban has led to a 95% drop in the cultivation of opium poppies, UNODC said last month. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.