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In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogramme, a tenfold growth from $75 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy growing, the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised crime networks. A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

Aung Naing was a reformed opium farmer. But wartime hardship forced him back to the crop. "There is more poppy cultivation because of difficulties in residents' livelihoods," he says. "Most of the ...

SP Ankit Jaiswal said that 144 kg wet and dry marijuana plants, 280.5 kg wet and dry opium poppy capsules ... discovered opium and marijuana plants growing with the mustard crop," he said.

While opium poppies have long flourished in rural Myanmar ... say they have little alternative but to grow the crop to survive.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township ...

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations’ drugs ...