The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and the young Afghans killed by the poisonous harvest to their fate.

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Vienna, Mar. 12, (dpa/GNA) – 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 ...

The Afghan government will buy at least a portion of the crop. About 4,800 farmers will receive the seed and fertilizer out of roughly 80,000 to 100,000 people in the Nawa district.

Despite all the efforts of NATO forces including American marines to eradicate poppy cultivation, it continues to flourish and Afghanistan still supplies 90 percent of the world’s demand for heroin.

NIMLA, Afghanistan Farmers and tribal leaders in this picturesque farming village in eastern Afghanistan confirmed statements by the Afghan government that unidentified planes have been spraying opium ...

Cannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year, to 173,000 acres from 123,550 in 2006, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its 2007 opium survey.