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Opium farmers demand more licenses, ₹1 lakh/kg price

Opium farmers from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh protested at Jantar Mantar on August 17, 2026, urging higher licenses and a ₹1,00,000 per kilogram procurement price. They also called for reinstatement of leases cancelled since 1990, a morphine yield basis, abolition of the CPS method,