To direct seed, scatter the poppy seeds on the surface of the soil ... if you are very careful with their taproots. On another farm I worked for, we tossed out handfuls of a wildflower mix that ...

“To be very honest, we had never thought of abandoning poppy cultivation as that being a ‘cash crop’ for the majority of Bara and Tirah farmers,” he told Dawn. Official says vertical ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...