Rajasthan farmers face opium ban

[Raj]

More than 7,000 farmers in the Indian state of Rajasthan have been banned from cultivating poppies used for the legal production of opium. Officials said they were growing poppies of inferior quality.
There are 35,000 opium farmers in this western state which produced 206 tonnes of the drug last year, say officials.
India is the largest legitimate producer of opium in the world and the drug is exported as well as used by the domestic pharmaceutical industry.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6076764.stm for the full story

[Agent Subby]

More than 7,000 farmers in the Indian state of Rajasthan have been banned from cultivating poppies used for the legal production of opium. Officials said they were growing poppies of inferior quality.
There are 35,000 opium farmers in this western state which produced 206 tonnes of the drug last year, say officials.
India is the largest legitimate producer of opium in the world and the drug is exported as well as used by the domestic pharmaceutical industry.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6076764.stm for the full story

Definitely inferior Raj:groucho:
Only joking.:wink:
:love:

[Raj]

I think that pulling their licenses is not going to stop them growing it tbh and is going to backfire badly for the advocates of prohibition as the market will be flooded with opium they have no other way of selling [not sure if there are any alternative crops they can grow which are as profitable?]