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’

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.

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/