Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation ...

Pune Police have seized 66 illegally cultivated opium plants from a farm in Alandi Mhatobachi village, Haveli taluka. The ...

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

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. “There is more poppy cultivation ...

Opium cultivation and production in Myanmar decreased ... offering many job opportunities in the region, we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to," says farmer Shwe Khine ...