The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 ...

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Kawal Deep Kour's Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the Present unearths a fascinating history that intertwines colonial ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following the US-led invasion in ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

However, opium production does not bring real economic benefits to local communities. The cultivation is very labour-intensive, and serves mainly to finance both Myanmar’s military junta and the ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

It features a young Japanese man who crosses by ship to the Asian mainland, where he turns to illicit opium production to save a family member. It coincided with the release of an academic work ...

BANGKOK--There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations said ...