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Helmand, with a vast opium poppy crop and an entrenched Taliban insurgency, has been one of the most violent provinces in Afghanistan. ...
Helmand, with a vast opium poppy crop and an entrenched Taliban insurgency, has been one of the most violent provinces in Afghanistan. ...
Although they had expected to be tested by the Taliban in an area where much of the poppy crop that funds the Insurgents is grown, they had not anticipated ...
Kabul (NNI): The Afghan Opium Survey 2008 released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime shows that opium has become less important to the Afghan ...

"Afghanistan has produced so much opium in recent years," the Times reported Thursday, "that the Taliban are cutting poppy cultivation and stockpiling raw ...
The opium poppy is its greatest cash crop. As the Marine Corps plans to draw down its forces in Iraq and move thousands more troops 1200 miles to the east ...
Peter Andrews/ReutersExperts worry that the recent drop in poppy cultivation is nothing more than a blip. Kandahar, Afghanistan -- A sharp decline in opium ...
Ronald Sandford (Letters, November 27) asks when opium crops in Afghanistan will be licensed for sale as painkillers to reduce the global shortage and end ...
Apart from opium (last year's crop totaled about 8000 metric tons), Afghans produce almost nothing the world wants. Meanwhile, the chief effect of military ...
A senior officer has admitted that the army's efforts to curb Opium production in Afghanistan have been "pretty patchy". In an interview with The Times, ...
Costa estimates that taxing poppy growth at 10% earns the Taliban about $75 million a year, and it gains about $300 million through opium production. ...
The PEP is a US-government funded program to eliminate poppy production in Afghanistan, where 92per cent of the world's opium crop is grown.
... of the Afghan Cabinet that had elevated reformers, as well as the improving ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan and the drop in opium production, ...
Costa estimates that taxing poppy growth at 10% earns the Taliban about $75 million a year, and it gains about $300 million through opium production. ...
The conflict is far more intractable than Iraq, since the staple crop is not oil but opium and since the border with Pakistan is hopelessly unstable. ...
It is geographically closer to Europe, and most of the opium that is cultivated there - Afghanistan accounts for 90% of global production - ends up in ...
NATO's 26 member nations agreed last month to target the Afghan opium trade in a bid to stop hundred of millions of dollars in drug money from reaching the ...
Costa made his remarks last week as his office prepared to release its latest survey of Afghanistan's opium crop. Issued Thursday, it showed that poppy ...
... another widely produced Afghan crop. In its report, the UN said opium poppy production -- the raw material for heroin that is exported to Europe, ...
Although they had expected to be tested by the Taliban in an area where much of the poppy crop that funds the Insurgents is grown, they had not anticipated ...
The ADF says it is too busy fighting a resurgent Taliban and completing civil reconstruction projects to take on the task of eradicating poppy production. ...
Opium production is banned by the government, but it is far more lucrative to growers than conventional crops. Evidence shows that villages that have ...
The committee also raised the issue of the increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and that the NATO forces had not kept a check on the illegal ...
Opium production is banned by the government, but it is far more lucrative to growers than conventional crops. Evidence shows that villages that have ...
... will provide households with viable cash alternatives to illegal opium poppy production, which has become a major cash crop for many rural households.
The surging production of opium has contributed to the scale of Pakistan's problems in this area, and it is assumed that if the situation in Afghanistan ...
Afghanistan is known for its poppy fields, which produces opium used to make heroin. Poppies are not grown extensively in Laghman, but there are some there, ...
The lawmakers raised the issue of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and pointed out that NATO forces have not kept a check on this illegal production, ...
Joel Hafvenstein, author of Opium Season, a book about working on a poppy alternative crop project in southern Afghanistan, said: "The benefits of the poppy ...
The Committee also raised the issue of tremendous growth of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and the NATO forces have not kept a check on this illegal ...
The teachers said production of opium in Afghanistan is tied directly to the conflict. Only when people can earn a living by legal means will it be possible ...
Though they had expected to be tested by the Taliban in an area where much of the poppy crop that funds the Insurgents is grown, they had not anticipated ...
Perhaps Afghanistan's greatest scourge is not the insurgency, corruption or al-Qaeda - perhaps it's the humble poppy. Afghan farmers, with their limited ...
... action to curtail opium poppy production be taken seriously. The Taliban government had virtually wiped out this crop before the 2001 invasion. ...
Prior to this war, Opium production in Afghanistan was minimal. But according to historian Alfred McCoy, an expert on the subject, a shift in focus took ...
... from its affiliation with Afghanistan's Taliban movement, which raises tens of millions of dollars annually from illegal production and export of opium. ...
Joel Hafvenstein, author of Opium Season, a book about working on a poppy alternative crop project in southern Afghanistan, said: "The benefits of the poppy ...
According to the UN, Afghanistan's opium production increased from 6100 tons in 2006 to 8200 tons in 2007. Moscow _ A Moscow military court announced on ...
According to the UN, Afghanistan's opium production increased from 6100 tons in 2006 to 8200 tons in 2007. The narcotics trade has become an acute problem ...
The Taliban, which cut Afghan opium poppy production by more than 90 percent the first year the ban was put in place. In a sense, that makes Osama bin Laden ...

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