Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised ...

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

By bnm Tehran bureau Opium prices are soaring in Afghanistan following the Taliban's drug cultivation ban, threatening regional stability, new data from the UN indicated on March 12. The Taliban swept ...

Rajkot: Kutch (East) police uncovered an illegal operation involving the cultivation of opium poppy, intermixed with castor ...

Hamantaschen – known as oznei Haman (Haman’s ears) in Israel are supposedly symbolic of the triangle-shaped hat worn by Haman ...

After the 2021 coup, Myanmar overtook Afghanistan with a production worth between US$ 589 million and US$ 1.57 billion. The ...

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

Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations’ drugs ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported a significant rise in the price of opium, reaching $750 per ...

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 ...