Many families serve in the opium enterprise as "opium farmers, refiners, or smugglers".

Even as the fighting continues, opium farmers are returning to their fields, tilling the ground for what had been their most reliable cash crop.

Diplomats and relief officials say a considerable number of refugees fleeing into Pakistan were opium farmers who could not pay their debts.

A second proposal was to pay opium farmers to plow under their fields.

Outsourcing became a huge factor for survival for many smugglers and opium farmers.

He was the last opium farmer in Singapore.

The experience was enough to make an opium farmer weep.

If Bangkok put Tiger out of business, the opium farmers wouldn't have anyone to sell to.

In Helmand, agricultural officials said two different obstacles for opium farmers.

In return, he said, the Taliban had offered opium farmers protection from the government's eradication efforts.