The government has announced its licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh for the 2025-...

India Independence Day 2025: A century-long British colonial opium trade in India exploited millions of farmers, becoming the regime's seco...

Central Bureau of Narcotics plans GIS survey to curb illegal opium trade. Farmers cultivate opium with other crops in Northeast, Rajasthan,...

Myanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium in 2023, surpassing Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report. The UN Offi...

Afghan farmers suffered over $1 billion income loss due to the Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation, a UN report showed. The ban, imposed in ...

Under the new policy, nearly 1.12 lakh farmers in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are anticipated to be given lic...

To choke the flow of funds to left-wing extremists in the state, the Bihar Police has intensified crackdown on cultivation of illegal poppy...

India is having to import opium byproduct codeine phosphate and is in danger of losing its leadership in the international legal narcotics ...

The UNODC report noted opium cultivation increased by 63 per cent; from 201,000 hectares in 2016 to an estimated 328,000 hectares in 2017.

Assam Rifles has stated that various intelligence inputs indicated that militant outfit in North East are carrying out opium cultivation an...

Khaplang faction of NSCN, anti-talk ULFA and Kamatapur liberation organization are carrying out opium cultivation and trade in Kachin Provi...

With over 90 per cent crop lost because of untimely rains in the previous season, poppy farmers are now looking for alternative crops.

"The policy would endeavour giving priority to traditional cultivators who have been earlier granted licences for cultivation of opium popp...

The surge in drugs use has been accompanied by a boom in opium production in Mexico, where officials estimate cultivation of the crop incre...

Four multinationals are in the race to enter opium trade, after having bid for a govt contract to build ultra-modern processing plant to pr...

And now opium production too is set to go private with top players such as Ranbaxy, Cipla and Dr Reddy’s Labs vying for a piece of the pie.

The government announced the annual licensing policy for opium crop of 2002-03, according to which about one lakh cultivators of Madhya Pra...