Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan ... but the plants are being grown in most provinces despite a ban imposed by the Taliban. Some areas grow more ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new ... crop cultivation and move towards growing licit crops. Orchard establishment is ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded ... previously a leading poppy-growing region, cultivation has been slashed from 120,000 hectares last year to less than 1,000 hectares.

When the Taliban announced their ban on drugs in April 2022, farmers were cultivating around 220,000 hectares of opium-producing poppies Afghanistan ... the most important growing regions.

Kabul can win battles, but it will never win the war unless it disrupts the Taliban's major funding source: poppies. The rising prevalence of injecting drug users could create an HIV/AIDS crisis.

Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency, threatens the stability of the country and leads to growing drug addiction in Afghanistan and the wider world. The poppy plant poses the ...

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been destroyed, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview with TASS.

A farmer squats with his back to the flowers, weeding an adjacent ... have gained control of southern Afghanistan over the past several years, growing poppies has only gotten easier.