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How to Eat Poppy Seeds the Right Way, According to Culinary Experts
Related: How to Eat Sesame Seeds the Right Way—Whether Whole, Ground, or Made Into Oil Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy), a flowering plant likely indigenous to lower ...
The Manhattan Mercury10d
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...
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In Myanmar’s fields of fear, farmers sow opium poppies for survival
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 ...
THE WEEK1y
The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...
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U.N. drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise
Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...