Assam destroys poppy plantations worth ₹27.20 crore, Chief Minister compares local cultivators to Pablo Escobar.

Some of the earliest historical references to the poppy come from the ancient Sumerians, who cultivated the plant for its opium content. They used opium for medicinal as well as ritualistic purposes.

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 ...

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 ...

Poppies are needed to make morphine Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy ... clothing made partly from the poppy plant and with illustrations of poppies ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds, is generally considered the true opium plant. When the capsules are about half grown, or three or four days after the flower has ...

The bricks of opium that he wrapped in plastic and took ... The police warned us last year not to plant poppy. So I've switched to melon. But all of this is rain-fed land, so if there's a drought ...

Iran where much of the illegal poppy plants supplying the opium are grown. With the Iranians focusing on the supply, the western agents are focusing on the trafficking. Out of an unfortunate ...

Imphal: The Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has announced a strong stance against illegal poppy cultivation among the planters on the border.