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Indien. How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians
Indien. How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians
(...) By the end of the 19th Century poppy farming had an impact on the lives of some 10 million people in what is now the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. A few thousand workers - in two opium factories located on the Ganges river - dried and mixed the milky fluid from the seed, made it into cakes and packed the opium balls in wooden chests. (...) ... the price peasants received for their opium did not even cover the cost of growing it. (BBC, 05.09.2019)