Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

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 35-year ...

Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of opium in 2023 - Copyright AFP STR Myanmar overtook Afghanistan as the world's largest producer of ...

Pekon (Myanmar) (AFP) – 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 ...

"If anyone were in my shoes, they would likely do the same." - Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished ...