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Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

The plants had distinct white flowers and green, pimpled leaves with rounded pods, indicative of fully developed opium poppy. During the raid, authorities uprooted the illicit crop, which was ...

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 ...