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 ...

Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May 2024. [VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United ...

"Hing (Asafetida) is the best replacement for poppy in Afghanistan. It is more profitable and generates significantly higher income than poppies," Rohani told Xinhua on his farm recently.

The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

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 ...

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 ...