Afghani poppy farmers are estimated to have lost over $1 billion in value or 95% of their opium supply since the Taliban outlawed opium production in April 2022, according to a new report from the ...

MAYWAND, Afghanistan -- Afghan farmers have begun harvesting this year's opium crop, exposing the limits of a U.S.-sponsored crackdown on the world's largest narcotics industry despite claims Tuesday ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall ...

An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Parwiz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium ...

Locals say many people earn money for the 15 days of harvest and are jobless for the rest of the year. Lashes swished and whirled through the air in a burst of celebration around a sea of opium ...

An annual U.N. report finds that more than 550,000 acres were cultivated with opium poppies this year — that's approaching the total land area... Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation set a new record ...

In 1979, the year of the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan had no significant production of opium. But that was soon to change: The mujahedeen rebels who opposed the Red Army used opium and heroin as a ...

Bhilwara: Cloudy weather, unseasonable rain and sporadic hailstorms have left opium farmers in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara ...

The multibillion-dollar trade has survived previous bans. Now, the Taliban are going after solar-powered water pumps to try to dry up poppy crops in the middle of a national economic crisis. By Bryan ...

At harvest, collectors cut the bulb of the plant, allowing the raw opium to ooze out. This resin dries and is collected the following day. Malakhail said the new seeds grow bulbs that are bigger than ...

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake. By Azam ...