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

Various experiments have been made in England, France, and Scotland, to produce opium, with encouraging results. So far as our knowledge extends the attempts made here have not given much ...

"My father taught me how to grow poppies ten years ago," he says. "Until this year, I was able to produce 60 pounds of opium from my farmland." Crouching while his fingertips brush against the ...

Opium can be stored for up to 10 years without ... It also takes years before such crops begin to produce appreciable yields. For lack of better alternatives, most farmers are now growing wheat ...

The first is to produce seeds that are eaten by humans, known commonly as poppy seed. The second is to produce opium for use mainly by the pharmaceutical industry. The third is to produce other ...

Pekon (Myanmar) (AFP) – 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 ...