VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it ...

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The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, according to a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan grew to an all-time high in 2013 despite America spending more than $7 billion to fight it over the past decade, a U.S. report showed ...

Banned in the 1979 after the Islamic Revolution, opium cultivation could be legalised again by Iran’s parliament. Supporters ...

As part of ongoing anti-narcotics crackdowns, security forces have destroyed more than 675 acres of illegal poppy cultivation ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year, ...

KABUL: Opium cultivation in Afghanistan dropped by 20 per cent in 2025, the United Nations said on Thursday, while warning of a simultaneous surge in synthetic drug production and trafficking. The ...