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Editorial

Poppy and the land laws

IFP Bureau3 Mar 2024

The issue of deforestation due to jhum cultivation has been debated enough. But now, the more pressing issue is of the devastation caused by poppy cultivation and its methods.

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Editorial

The issue of land reforms

IFP Bureau31 Jan 2024

The issue of land reforms in the hills of Manipur had been made very complicated over the years by some powerful lobbies particularly the Kuki chieftains by spicing it with wrong notions of indigenous land rights.

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Editorial

Poppy: The new destroyer

IFP Bureau19 Dec 2023

It takes only three months to harvest opium from the poppy fields. The issue of deforestation due to jhum cultivation has been debated enough. But now, the more pressing issue is of the devastation caused by poppy cultivation and its methods.

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Editorial

Politics, drugs and unrest

IFP Bureau19 Oct 2023

Eviction of illegal encroachment and settlement in reserve and protected forest land were protested while adding a communal tinge, even though the eviction drive was taken up irrespective of community across Manipur.

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Editorial

Stop fooling around

IFP Bureau18 Oct 2023

The idea of destroying poppy fields before harvest is to cut the revenue stream of the cartel bosses and to discourage any future effort to resort to poppy plantation again in the hills of Manipur.

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