According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have imposed a poppy cultivation ban in the land locked Asian country. Previously the world's biggest opium producer, Afghanistan has seen a steep decline in ...

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations ...

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 ...

Afghan forces in Helmand in the south-west ... The farmers have borrowed to buy poppy seeds and fertiliser, and fear they will not be able to repay. They say they plant only a few poppies to ...

Ingredients in Chicken Afghani Recipe: Goodness of cream mixed with rich cashews, poppy seeds and melon seeds along with pepper infused in chicken and grilled to perfection. How to serve Afghani ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Police have destroyed poppy farms on 13 acres of land in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid ...

VIENNA — Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits" to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations' drugs ...