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...

In response to this peculiar predicament, animal rescuers and volunteers, including those from the Slovak Environmental Protection Agency, ...

Afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. Production spiraled over the past 20 ye...

The vast majority of the world's opium and heroin comes from Afghanistan, with production and exports centred in areas controlled by the Ta...

Cannabis is also used in some religious rituals and festivals such as Holi in which bhang is consumed.

A group of poppy importers and India’s poppy farmers are alleging that a small number of importers have cornered the latest import order vi...

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.

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...

Likely to cap imports and monitor consignments as poppy seeds flooding the local mkt hurting domestic producers.

He 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...

The finance ministry has shortlisted Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppy on 5,000 acres and ...

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...