<h1>Opium poppy licensing policy expands eligible cultivators and links licences to yield based eligibility and compliance.</h1> The annual licensing policy expands eligible opium poppy cultivators, retains opium gum licences for growers meeting the morphine yield threshold, allows lower yield growers to use the Concentrate of Poppy Straw (CPS) method with multi year licences, offers high performing CPS growers an option to switch to opium gum cultivation as an incentive, and provides for suspension of CPS licences for growers failing to meet the prescribed minimum qualifying yield. The policy also advances alkaloid supply security, domestic processing capacity and use of digitised cultivator records to broaden inclusion.