She retreats indoors. Her son is detained by the ... If we grew wheat on them we would make a fraction of what we could from opium." The ban on poppy growing forces farmers such as Ali Mohammed ...

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 by ...

Only 2017 and 2018 saw more Afghan soil used to cultivate opium poppies. Afghanistan has a long history of cultivating opium, a drug in its own right that's also the key ingredient in a variety of ...

This week, the Taliban announced that more than 100 people were arrested in northeastern Afghanistan for allegedly growing opium poppy. The arrests were made in a region that had previously defied ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged more than 90 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop last April, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

There are two main uses for the opium poppy. It is a source of the opiates used in painkillers, the most biologically active of which are morphine and codeine. Its seeds are also used for cooking ...

Opium’s Hidden Histories,” the unassuming opium poppy is to blame for much of the devastation that swept through China and India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Of course, the flower did ...

She retreats indoors. Her son is detained ... They launched airstrikes on poppy fields in Taliban-controlled territory, burnt opium stocks and conducted raids on drug laboratories.