The survey warned that high prices and dwindling opium stocks in the country may tempt Afghan farmers to ignore the Taliban’s ...

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 ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (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 ...

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

Afghan Opium Cultivation Bounces and Shifts Two Years After Ban, UN Says By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it rose by 19%, according to a report by the UNODC. A UN report published ...

An Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a poppy field in Badakhshan province in May, 2024 - Copyright AFP/File OMER ABRAR An Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a ...

KABUL: Opium cultivation rose by 19 per cent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban that almost eradicated the crop. Currently, 12,800 hectares of ...