![]() ![]() ![]() GhazipurĬity is located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Producers in the world and certainly the largest legal opium factory. Memorably in Sea of Poppies) continues to be one of the largest opium The 200-year old Ghazipur opium factory in India (which figures With opium poppies, and then sell the resulting harvest back to the British East India Company for a pittance. Indian farmers were effectively forced to replace their crops ![]() There wasn't much demand for the drug, but over the next decade demand increasedĮxponentially. At the time, China exportedĮnormous amounts of goods including tea, but imported little from Europe. Hastings, in an attempt to balance trade with China. The 1780's at the urging of the first governor general of British India, Warren For centuries, India was the largest exporter of opium,Īccounting for 17-20% of Indian revenues. ![]()
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