Sentences with phrase «grow opium»

Jo was learning spanish with us and we learned thai with him: --RRB- What I really liked is that they showed us the results from the royal project that helped the hill tribe villages to change from their occupation to grow opium to agriculture.

The island's isolation and its small population were the main reasons the federal government granted an exclusive licence to Tasmania to grow opium poppies for legal commercial production half a century ago.

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»

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Kennedy says that as marijuana reform spreads across the world, a global economy is forming and marijuana production will start to blossom where other commodities are currently grown, such as coffee, fruit, cotton, tobacco and medicinal opium poppies.

With growing anxieties about supplies of opium poppies, it could be just what the doctor ordered.

Wallabies have been munching the poppies grown for opium by the pharmaceutical industry.

The program has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records, shifting farmers from growing poppy for opium, and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.

Rhubarb reportedly reached Europe by way of China in the 14th century, and because of growing demand, was more expensive than other precious plants and spices like cinnamon and opium.

Shanghai became a center of trade, exporting tea, silk and porcelain and importing opium, and it grew into an important industrial center and trading post, becoming home to thousands of foreigners.

But this dispersal began in earnest in the 1830s, just before the first Opium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wOpium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wopium - growing region of the world.

The economy of Afghanistan is between 60 - 80 % dependent on the growing of opium poppies.