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Opium Poppies Research Paper

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The opium in Afghanistan in the last four decades, “Opium poppy is a hardy, drought-resistant crop that is easily grown throughout Afghanistan’s rugged territory. Opium poppy is an annual crop with a 6 to 7 month planting cycle. It is planted between September and December and flowers approximately 3 months after planting. After the flower’s petals fall away, the opium, an opaque, milky sap found in the plant’s seed capsule, is harvested between April and July. The sap can then be refined into morphine and heroin”.
The cultivation of opium is very cheap, and it doesn’t requisite much water and hard work to produce it. For that reason; the farmers preferred to cultivate poppies that letter on the result is opium, because it has more benefits

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