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 price of Afghan opium is skyrocketing ... That cereal is once again filling fields, as its germination cycle coincides with that of poppy. An analysis that focused on four provinces (Farah ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the most in Afghanistan and far ahead of the second-place Western region, which turned out 24%. Opium-poppy production was stable in southern Afghanistan, but the country saw marked increases in ...

The drug bazaar that powered this part of southern Afghanistan has ... at how productive Khaliq’s poppy fields were. “I bet there’s over half a tonne of opium here,” Khaliq recalled ...

It is the story of how Afghan opium growers have switched to solar ... I was in a military helicopter thundering over the lush poppy fields of the Helmand valley in Afghanistan when I spotted ...

Underneath a busy bridge in Kabul, among piles of discarded rubbish and a stream of filthy water, lives a drug-ravaged community of homeless men. "It's no place for a human being," said Khudadad ...

ZARANJ, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (Xinhua ... In similar operations, police apprehended a drug smuggler and discovered 66 kg opium poppy from his possession in Kang district of Nimroz province ...