Poppy is used to make narcotics - opium, brown sugar and heroin. It is big business in West Bengal's #Malda district, involving big money and big names, where a lakh-strong mob set fire to the local police station in #Kaliachak block earlier this month.
As NDTV reported:
Poppy is allegedly grown on 12,000 bighas in Malda, sources say. The money involved is huge.
At Domaichak, barely 20 km from the Kaliachak police station, at least half-a-dozen tractors are destroying poppy grown over 25 ...
