Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised ...
Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand. For a brief period after a Taliban ban on poppies in 2000 ...
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, but heroin flows to Europe continue unabated
A farmer in the southern province of Helmand, where most of the opium was produced until the ban, told Bjelica and her colleagues that he had never earned as much from opium or lived as well as ...
Opium is now being produced in the country's ... The only exception was the Helmand province which saw an increase of more ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the ... by geospatial firm Alcis indicates that in Helmand, previously a leading poppy-growing region ...
Helmand provided 70 percent of the world’s supply of opium and heroin. A farmer collected pitch from every bulb on his five to seven acres and earned $9,000 for the aggregate product.
Kate Clark reports from Helmand where the Taleban insurgency is at its most fierce. After last year's record opium crop in Afghanistan, counter narcotics is a top priority for Britain, and the ...
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