THERE have been many changes in Tasmania’s poppy industry over the past 50 years and Malcolm Brown has seen them all. Mr Brown, of Sassafras, was one of a handful of farmers who helped get the then ...

Afghani poppy farmers are estimated to have lost over $1 billion in value or 95% of their opium supply since the Taliban outlawed opium production in April 2022, according to a new report from the ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall ...

Locals say many people earn money for the 15 days of harvest and are jobless for the rest of the year. Lashes swished and whirled through the air in a burst of celebration around a sea of opium ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In Zhari, a parched district northwest of Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar, 13 year-old Naqibullah is working in his father's poppy field, preparing for the main ...

A new NHVR operation is focusing on heavy vehicle safety and compliance during Tasmania’s peak poppy and pyrethrum harvest.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Abdul Sattar is in charge of the anti-drug agency in the largest poppy-growing province in the leading opium-producing country in the world. While sitting on the floor of ...