More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen military heroes.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia seized nearly 300 pounds of dried opium poppy pods. Officials said the shipment from Spain arrived in ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man was arrested in Fresno after police reported finding illegally owned firearms and multiple opium poppy plants and marijuana plants. The Fresno Police ...

The police in Mandi district have uncovered and destroyed over 1.09 lakh illicit opium plants in the Padhar region. The operation targeted plantations spread across three villages — Bhar ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year ...

It throws light on government policies, which issues licences for opium poppy cultivation and buys back the produce at Centre-decided rates, and outlines the helplessness of farmers and their ...

Ranchi: The state govt would promote alternative farming and afforestation in areas where illegal poppy plants were destroyed ... In order to prevent opium farming again on this land, the state ...

You might see people wearing the poppy, a roundish, red flower on a lapel — especially on the Friday before Memorial Day.

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 ...

And yet, six months of hard toil yields a mere Rs 9,000, rues his son as Mangilal says on the phone how the poppy farmers were paid Rs 1,500 for a kg of opium in 1998, and 20 years later ...