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 ...

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 ... last year’s harvest was largely exempt from the ban. Data from the UN Office on Drugs and ...

KABUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Poppy cultivation and drug production have been banned in Afghanistan and are now nearly at zero, spokesman of the caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In Helmand, located in southern Afghanistan ... poppy, and other countries, will be able to fill the gap in the short term,” say UNODC sources. The gap is significant. With the 2023 harvest ...

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 ...