The Taliban outlawed the cultivation of narcotics nationwide in April 2022, months after sweeping back to power in Afghanistan, which led to a massive decline in opium poppy production.

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

How is opium made? The unripe seed pods of the opium poppy plant hold a milky substance. People make cuts in the pods to let the substance drain out. It’s then scraped and dried, producing ...

the police found 485 opium plants grown in the garden and bedroom, along with two plastic boxes and a ceramic cup containing a black solid substance. Thu admitted to purchasing opium poppy pods in ...

Remote Sensing Data, Ground Verification MARSAC said the best season to plant and harvest opium poppy is from September to February. Sometimes, the harvest extends till March-end. "We usually ...

Ranchi: Poppy plants cultivated over 2,772 acres across ... due to its dual role of both as a consumer and a producer of opium, distinguishing it from Punjab. He said, “Poppy pods are ripe ...

BARIPADA/BHUBANESWAR: After destroying poppy plants close to Rs 11 crore ... from Jashipur police station to uproot 5.25 lakh opium grown plants in Bakua and Kukurbhuka villages four days back.

Opium can also be injected or made into a pill. The poppy plant is also a source of morphine and codeine — non-synthetic opioids — as well as heroin, a semi-synthetic opioid made from morphine ...

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged more than 90 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop last April, according to a UN report published on Sunday.