In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new ... While the 2022 harvest was largely exempted from the decree, the Taliban have ...

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 ...

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 heroin issue hasn't diappeared. The cultivation scale of opium poppy in Afghanistan in 2014 grew to 250,000 hectares. Its harvest grew 30%," Viktor Ivanov told reporters. "And just a tiny ...

The centre of poppy cultivation has also shifted, the agency noted, and is now concentrated in northeastern provinces instead ...

One morning during harvest season, Chief Kintuz and his ... Helmand Province is the Taliban's stronghold and ground zero for Afghanistan's poppy cultivation. It is the place where Americans ...

The Southern region produced 54% of the country's opium, the most in Afghanistan and far ahead of the second-place Western region, which turned out 24%. Opium-poppy production was stable in ...