Opium poppy cultivation and production is labor-intensive ... a chronic cycle of debt for rural families, the opportunity to grow a lucrative cash crop was seen as a blessing by many rural ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

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Fresh opium was generally sold by Myanmar farmers ... offering many job opportunities in the region, we wouldn't plant any poppy fields even if we were asked to," says farmer Shwe Khine, 43.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... "Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township ...