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Over 120k opium licences to be issued starting OctThe government plans to issue 121,000 opium cultivation licenses for the 2025-26 crop year, a 23.5% increase from the previous year, aiming...- Govt announces annual licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation for 2025-26 crop yearThe government has announced its licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh for the 2025-...
- Narco-colonialism: How Britain exploited Indians for its drug trade with ChinaIndia Independence Day 2025: A century-long British colonial opium trade in India exploited millions of farmers, becoming the regime's seco...
- Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world's biggest opium producer: UNMyanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium in 2023, surpassing Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report. The UN Offi...
- Afghan farmers lose income of more than USD 1 billion after the Taliban banned poppy cultivationAfghan farmers suffered over $1 billion income loss due to the Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation, a UN report showed. The ban, imposed in ...
- Govt announces annual licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation for 2023-24Under the new policy, nearly 1.12 lakh farmers in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are anticipated to be given lic...
- Poppy farmers in Slovakia grapple with an unusual predicament: Swans addicted to opiumIn response to this peculiar predicament, animal rescuers and volunteers, including those from the Slovak Environmental Protection Agency, ...
- Afghan Taliban launch campaign to eradicate poppy cropAfghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. Production spiraled over the past 20 ye...
- Taliban vow to ban heroin, but can they survive without it?The vast majority of the world's opium and heroin comes from Afghanistan, with production and exports centred in areas controlled by the Ta...
- All the Dope on Marijuana: US House of Representative passes bill to decriminalise use of cannabisCannabis is also used in some religious rituals and festivals such as Holi in which bhang is consumed.
- Turkish import seeds a poppy war in IndiaA group of poppy importers and India’s poppy farmers are alleging that a small number of importers have cornered the latest import order vi...
- Opium trade sluggish as norms, infra beg for upgradeIndia is having to import opium byproduct codeine phosphate and is in danger of losing its leadership in the international legal narcotics ...
- Record-high opium production in Afghanistan creates multiple challenges for region and beyond: UNThe UNODC report noted opium cultivation increased by 63 per cent; from 201,000 hectares in 2016 to an estimated 328,000 hectares in 2017.
- Untimely rains destroy 90% crops; poppy farmers looking for alternativesWith over 90 per cent crop lost because of untimely rains in the previous season, poppy farmers are now looking for alternative crops.
- Government to consider giving more opium poppy cultivation licences"The policy would endeavour giving priority to traditional cultivators who have been earlier granted licences for cultivation of opium popp...
- Mexico's Opium Boom: 'The cartels have a pretty good handle on the appetite in the US'The surge in drugs use has been accompanied by a boom in opium production in Mexico, where officials estimate cultivation of the crop incre...
- India red-flags illegal opium from TurkeyLikely to cap imports and monitor consignments as poppy seeds flooding the local mkt hurting domestic producers.
- Opium farmers likely to fetch more prices after ban on importHe said that 5133 quintals of white poppy seeds had been brought for sale in the Neemuch Mandi in 2011-12 and this quantity had risen to 16...
- Finance ministry shortlists Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppyThe finance ministry has shortlisted Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppy on 5,000 acres and ...
- MNCs look to set up opium processing plant, cultivate poppy in IndiaFour multinationals are in the race to enter opium trade, after having bid for a govt contract to build ultra-modern processing plant to pr...
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