Fresh opium was generally sold by Myanmar farmers for just over $300 per kilo in 2024, according to the UNODC, a small ...

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

Fresh opium was generally sold by Myanmar farmers for just over $300 per kilo in 2024, according to the UNODC, a small ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... And the crop is more costly to produce than rice -- more labour intensive, requiring expensive fertilisers and with small yields.

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 ...

Fresh opium was generally sold by Myanmar farmers ... And the crop is more costly to produce than rice -- more labour intensive, requiring expensive fertilisers and with small yields.