AFP on MSN3mon
Afghanistan poppy cultivation grows 19 percent despite ban: UN
The centre of poppy cultivation has also shifted, the agency noted, and is now concentrated in northeastern provinces instead ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung4mon
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, but heroin flows to Europe continue unabated
poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...
THE WEEK1y
The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...
webtv.un.org1y
Taliban's Poppy Ban in Afghanistan: Can It Work?
In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...
standardmedia.co.ke7mon
Afghan farmers grow poppies despite Taliban's ban
[VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year ... They have no extra income or time to buy the seeds of other plants and then wait years for them to mature to be ...
The Diplomat10y
Afghanistan poppy cultivation
The U.S. spent over $8 billion in a failed effort to stop the Afghan drug trade. Will the Taliban’s DIY effort carry the day? In the past, Pakistan’s clandestine services have used profits ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty9mon
Afghan Policemen Killed In Blast During Mission To Eradicate Poppy Crops
The White House said President Joe Biden spoke to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2022 and promised to do everything possible to bring them home as he ...
BBC4y
Policing the Poppy Fields
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 ...
China Internet Information Center10d
Drug production in Afghanistan nearing to zero: official
KABUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Poppy cultivation and drug production have been banned in Afghanistan and are now nearly at zero, spokesman of the caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said.
China Internet Information Center12d
10.5 tons illicit drugs destroyed in Afghanistan's Bamiyan
Police in Bamiyan banned the cultivation of poppy, drug processing, and drug trafficking in the province, the statement added. The Afghan caretaker government has vowed to fight the menace of ...
The Manila Times on MSN3mon
Afghanistan poppy cultivation grows 19% despite ban
The center of poppy cultivation has also shifted, the agency noted, and is now concentrated in northeastern provinces instead of in the Taliban strongholds of southern Afghanistan. In May ...