Currently, 12,800 hectares of poppies are cultivated in Afghanistan -- where up to 80 percent of the population ... The ...

Afghanistan ... in 2022 was up by 32% on the previous year. What has the Taliban done? Analysis of satellite images by Alcis indicates that the “scale” of the reductions in poppy cultivation ...

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 ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating ... former spokesman for Afghanistan's Counternarcotics Ministry, told DW. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with up to ...

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.

Except in the remote northeast of the country, where the Taliban's control is less strong than in their core areas in the south, poppy ... up to 10 years without any problems, especially in ...

After last year's record opium crop in Afghanistan ... up to one thousand addicts congregate there regularly to buy and smoke heroin. But many farmers say that without the poppy crop it's hard ...

TASS/. The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan has risen by 7% reaching a record high in 2014, Afghan media reported on Wednesday citing UN experts. The total area of the cultivation has ...