Poppy Power

This is a bee's leg with the pollen glommed onto it from a mallow plant.

Afghan farmer in poppy field.

You're the one who is taking good care of the poppy field?

He stopped and turned his head quickly, his poppy cheeked face lighting up.

Cornfield... ...Hidden FARC poppy plantation

That poppy seed, you sure it wasn't a watermelon?

The eradication of poppy fields should be seen in this larger context.

Putting pressure on the poppy farmers in Afghanistan alone will not solve the problem.

Considerably more assistance needs to reach farmers directly as a disincentive for poppy cultivation.

Thanks to its Anti Narcotics Force, Pakistan was a poppy free country.

Again and again, I hear of poppy farmers who sell their daughters to repay their debts to drug traffickers.

A separate Ministry was established in 1992 to ensure the development of the border areas and to eradicate poppy cultivation.

The application of the above research programme for the development of monitoring procedures for the assessment of poppy production has been continued in 1994.

Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has undertaken a rapid assessment survey of the poppy planting trends, to be published shortly.

Many farmers are waiting for a sustainable alternative to poppy crops. In the meantime, women are suffering.

The impact of illicit poppy cultivation on socio economic development and the environment was also analysed.

But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.

We have also communicated our agreement to take up a pilot project on community development to wean farmers away from poppy cultivation.

In the past it has been our strategy to focus mainly on the destruction of poppy fields, sometimes carried out manually and at other times by aerial spraying of herbicides.

Illicit poppy cultivation, which has appeared in several countries of the region, is a new problem.

The poppy eradication programme and the halt to illegal narcotics trafficking in the country has had a negative impact on women.

We would wish to encourage other countries to consider substituting new varieties for currently cultivated poppy plants.

UNDCP is financing one project for the use of remote sensing to identify opium poppy cultivation in the Bekaa Valley.

Them as'll come up an' bloom if you just whistle to 'em, them's th' nicest of all.

The forced loss of poppy crops has left farmers unable to repay the drug traffickers who lent them money to buy seeds.

Myanmar's Central Committee for Drug Control has been collaborating with UNODC in Myanmar's endeavours to eradicate opium poppy production.

Drug addiction in Poland has developed on the basis of raw materials available in the country, primarily poppy straw from which heroine is obtained.

By the decision of the Ministry of Agriculture, only the new variety has been cultivated in Poland for the last two years to obtain poppy seeds.

One of the basic steps taken by the Islamic State of Afghanistan is replacement of poppy cultivation with the cultivation of useful plants.

You can just take the DNA code from marijuana or poppies or coca leaves and cut and past that gene and put it into yeast, and you can take those yeast and make them make the cocaine for you, or the marijuana, or any other drug.

In terms of cultivation eradication, around 5,100 hectares, or 5 per cent of the total crop, have been eradicated.

As for the issue of drugs, we welcome the counter narcotics measures recently taken by Kabul, which helped to reduce opium cultivation this year.

At the same time, more than 60,000 hectares of marijuana and almost 50 thousand hectares of poppies have been eradicated.

This decision has also burdened Turkey with monitoring the cultivation of unlanced poppy straw as well as the complicated manufacturing and marketing problems of alkaloids.

This phenomenon refused to go away, despite the fact that since 1973 the planting of poppy in Kyrgyzstan had been completely banned.

The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?

So it is smarter to go after the heroin bosses and their foreign networks, and in the meantime buy the poppy crop from farmers to destroy it.

We are working to locate and destroy poppy and marijuana crops, as well as other similar crops for which Central America provides fertile soil.

Indeed, the international community s methods of fighting the insurgency and eradicating poppy crops have actually helped the insurgents gain power.

There has also been a holistic review of the current and future potential of remotely sensed data (satellite and airborne) for identification and monitoring of illicit crops (that is, opium poppy, cannabis and coca).

10. Welcomes the efforts of the Transitional Authority to respect fully the international obligations of Afghanistan with regard to narcotic drugs, and calls upon it to strengthen further its efforts to eradicate the annual poppy crop

If active intervention on law enforcement coupled with effective alternative livelihoods assistance is not provided on an urgent basis, they may return to cultivating poppy.

This has been possible through the implementation of a variety of crop substitution and area development schemes and the provision of economic incentives and alternate means of income to the traditional poppy growers.