The last of July or early in August is a good time to sow the seed, as the plants stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less ...

a farmer can plant corn, cotton, or beans in the same soil. During years when demand is high, a farmer might make as much as six times more from opium than he would from another crop. When the ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh): Over 16 quintals of illegal opium plants procured from Chhatarpur were destroyed in Damoh on ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...

Over 110 kilograms of narcotics seized in 44 cases were destroyed in Panchkula by the police. The destroyed substances ...

Luang Namtha police clear 9 hectares of opium poppies. Authorities in Viengphoukha district, Luang Namtha province, have cut ...

There had been a "long-standing" theory the jugs had been containers for opium and a new technique was used detect a plant compound related to it. It is the first chemical evidence of the opium ...

Xieng Khuang authorities last week destroyed over 14,100 square metres of opium poppies in Phoukoud district, cut down opium poppy, smashing the plants with wooden sticks and uprooting them to prevent ...