Opium cultivation in Afghanistan soared by 19 per cent in 2024, even despite a formal ban imposed by the Taliban. Such an ...

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Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

Kabul, Nov. 6, (dpa/GNA) – Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has resurged by 19% in 2024, reaching 12,800 hectares, the UN ...

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce emphasized that saffron cultivation has expanded to 26 provinces following the ban on opium poppy cultivation. According to the ministry’s ...

Acting on a tip-off, the personnel of counter-narcotics police raided a house in Hesa Duwum Kohistan district on Sunday and discovered 1 kg of opium poppy ... as the once-poppy-growing nation ...

We try to reconcile satellite observations of reduced opium poppy cultivation with other reporting that suggests that the Taliban nonetheless remain deeply involved in narcotics trafficking. Is the ...