Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...
The term originates from the metaphor of cutting down the tallest poppy in a field to make it level with ... famously associated with cultures like Australia and New Zealand, it is a global ...
The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...