ANOTHER OPIUM POPPY FIELD DISCOVERED IN MONTEREY COUNTY, THIS TIME ON THE 200 BLOCK OF AROMAS ROAD IN AROMAS, AN ACRE OF POPPIES CAPABLE OF PRODUCIN A POUND OF HEROIN. >> SEE HOW THE MILK IS ...

Farmers harvesting opium from a field that was irrigated with a solar-powered water pump in April in Kandahar Province.Credit... Supported by By Bryan Denton David Zucchino and Yaqoob Akbary ...

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Parwiz/Reuters Afghanistan has the equivalent of 400,000 football fields of opium fields, despite significant efforts and money spent by the United States on curbing the development of the country ...

Opium production rose 33% in Myanmar, the first season after the military's violent takeover of the country, a U.N. report released Thursday. This jump signifies enhanced sophistication in farming ...

Narcotics officers say a field of 40,000 opium poppy plants found on a remote hillside above North Fork was an isolated case. State agents found the acre-plus field in Madera County in June after ...

A farmer in Myanmar shows raw opium at a poppy field in Lone Twel village, Loilen Township, southern Shan state, Myanmar, in 2014 [File: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA] The Golden Triangle – a jungle ...

SHARIF: [subtitles] The government came and destroyed the opium fields. The smugglers came after us to get their money back. We didn't have any money. I had a girl. She was 8 years old.

Of all plants used in the field of medicine, none has been as widely employed – nor has helped to save as many lives and ease suffering – as the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The plant and ...

For decades, farmers in southern Afghanistan relied on opium poppies to make a living in their parched desert landscape. Even as prolonged drought dried out rivers and turned fields so salty that ...

Since ancient times, poppies have been used for a variety of purposes and given a variety of symbolic meanings. Red and white ...

Languages: English, Spanish Swans that became addicted to eating opium poppies have been forced to go cold turkey after invading a farmer's field. In February, hundreds of swans began arriving at ...