Sentence examples for poppy farming from inspiring English sources

Myanmar is at the heart of the "golden triangle" of poppy farming.

Without security, electricity, reliable transport and access to markets, poppy farming is still the best bet.

Their Western-backed successors have been less able to stop the inexorable spread of poppy farming.

Poppy farming is considered a perfectly legitimate line of agricultural work, especially by the businessmen who find it so profitable.

Today, with a reduction in poppy farming in Afghanistan, the United States calculates that Myanmar is the leading source.

The irony is that the Taliban, when in power, did a better job of controlling poppy farming than we have done.

Around the same time, the United States released photos of industrial-size poppy farms — many owned by pro-government opportunists, others owned by Taliban sympathizers.

The next day, as the team prepared to enter another poppy farm, Colonel Abdali received a phone call back at his Lashkar Gah HQ. "There's been a landmine explosion," the caller said.

The most fierce fighting has been in northern Helmand's Sangin valley, a fertile strip of land cut through the desert that is home to hundreds of small poppy farms.

While Nancy Farmer's latest novel, "The House of the Scorpion," has as its setting the vast poppy farm of a drug baron, it is unconcerned with the perils of addiction, and its roots reach rather farther back into children's literature -- to "Pinocchio," for starters.

Having retired 5 times to tend his family's modest opium poppy farm, he still can't resist the entreaties from all sides to return to action and expand his multiple pension accounts -- which might come in handy were the world price for opium to plunge because Washington decided to occupy another poppy rich country.