Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the obvious: For the outside world's largesse to continue, the national economy's addiction to opium must end. The poppy fields must ...
The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...
A mob of around 80 people on Friday confronted a security team that went to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation in ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May ...
Opium can be stored for up to 10 years without ... and typically do not grow in the same fields where poppies were previously grown, Bjelica says. It also takes years before such crops begin ...
In the renewed war against illegal poppy cultivation in the southern Churachandpur district, illegal poppy plants were chipped down.
The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...