He acknowledges that the poppy field is his. "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." ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences ... to survive after he is no longer allowed to grow opium after some 20 years. "Our fields are no longer as fertile as before ...

Poppy Varieties Description Field Poppy The field poppy is the simplest poppy plant to grow and is very ... and stems of ...

Poppy seeds, derived from the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum), are commonly used in various food products. However, their consumption can lead to the presence of opiate alkaloids ...

Luang Namtha police clear 9 hectares of opium poppies. Authorities in Viengphoukha district, Luang Namtha province, have cut ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...

Xieng Khuang authorities last week destroyed over 14,100 square metres of opium poppies in Phoukoud district, cut down opium poppy, smashing the plants with wooden sticks and uprooting them to prevent ...

Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these fields, and Myanmar again ranks as the world’s biggest exporter of the raw material to make heroin and other opiates. And that ...

You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after ... be found in poppy seeds, and because of the potential for the seeds to be used to grow opium poppies ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers ... alleviation in the motivation to continue to grow opium.” “It’s very important for the ...

As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets ... and typically do not grow in the same fields where poppies were previously grown, Bjelica says.