Poppy
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Another bitter irony was that, in areas that received assistance, neighboring farmers who cultivated food crops soon switched to cultivating
poppy
because then, too, could then qualify for aid.
More example sentences with word poppy
Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
Ancient medical texts from Egypt, Asia and the Middle East all describe early anesthetics containing things like opium poppy, mandrake fruit, and alcohol.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
That, at least, was the idea behind a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded
poppy
eradication program in Afghanistan.
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