Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

If Alamogordo was Munchkin land, Dorothy and her band of misfits would travel the White Sands and cross the Organ Mountains ...

For those displaced by relentless conflict in the world’s biggest producer of opium, poppy farming offers a fragile lifeline.

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 ...

"Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich ... Displaced and desperate - Myanmar's opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following ...

PEKON, Myanmar – Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar ... “Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by,” he said in rural Pekon ...