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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to," says farmer Shwe Khine, 43. Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he ...
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-racked landscape
For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...
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‘We feel unsafe’: Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape
PEKON (Myanmar), March 11 — Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla ...