VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it ...

The figures come after opium production in Afghanistan slumped an estimated 95 percent to around 364 tons following the Taliban government's ban on poppy cultivation in April last year, according to ...

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 photo, Afghan school boys leave the fields after helping to prepare the soil for poppy seeds in Cham Kalai village in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, an area ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Pink-and-white poppy blooms stretch toward the horizon in this field in southern Afghanistan as laborers slice open the green bulbs swollen with raw opium, the main ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw ...

In many lands of the Far East, poppies are manufactured into opium*, coca leaves into cocaine; and many men become slaves ”in bondage to the ruthless master, the narcotic evil,” as Bishop Charles H.

BANGKOK (AP) – The cultivation of illegal opium has increased in Myanmar for a sixth successive year, fueled in part by rising demand for heroin across Asia, the United Nations said Wednesday. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier of cannabis, with large-scale cultivation in half of its ...