It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade
In 2018, the area of opium poppy cultivation in the country dropped by 10% to 37 300 hectares from the previous year
‘The roses are much better… I make good money from roses. They are resistant and don’t require as much expense or work’
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/ 15 December 2011
Opium cultivation is back on the rise in Myanmar and Laos, with impoverished farmers lured by higher prices, according to a United Nations report.
United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a ”flood of drugs” in the country intended to destroy the value of opium.
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/ 28 October 2008
An Afghan court sentenced a South African man to 16 years in prison for trying to board a plane at Kabul’s international airport with a bag of heroin.
Figures from the United Nations to be released this week are set to reveal that opium production in the southern regions of Afghanistan has soared/