Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged more than 90 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop last April, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report.

Opium poppy cultivation has surged in Myanmar since the military seized power in 2021, reversing a steady decline that was seen in the illicit crop between 2014 and 2020, ...

Despite the increase, opium poppy cultivation is still far below the prior ban levels," the survey stated. It noted that an estimated 232,000 hectares were cultivated in the country in 2022.

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it ...

Myanmar has become the world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on poppy cultivation, according to a new United Nations report.. The ...

The total area of opium poppy cultivation in violence-hit Manipur has declined 60 per cent since 2021, latest data from the autonomous government institution Manipur Remote Sensing Applications ...

Opium cultivation in the south effectively starts each October, when farmers decide on what they are going to plant. The poppy seedlings remain dormant over winter and begin growing as ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Cultivation of the Poppy and Manufacture of Opium ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 17 (April 1869), p. 264 doi:10.1038 ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a ...