ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) - It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan - the country's intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall ...

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species ...

Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...

Poppy seeds are an essential ingredient in many parts of Europe, as well in Bengali cuisine, and in Pakistani kopta, are derived from the dried seed pods of the poppy plant. The seeds themselves don’t ...

KABUL -- The Taliban make Afghanistan's opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the insurgency. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic opioids, suggesting that ...

TALBOZANG, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fifty-year-old Abdul Wadud walked for two hours across Afghanistan's remote northern mountains to hear a police commander give yet more promises of aid for those who ...