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 ...

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

Beed police raided a farm in Dharur taluka and seized illegally cultivated opium plants valued at over ₹4.32 crore. The ...

Before the coup, which ended a brief experiment with democracy, Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship ...

Photo: STR / AFP reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation because of difficulties in residents' livelihoods," he says. "Most of the ...