The total value of Afghanistan’s opiates production in 2021 was $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion, up to 14% of the country’s GDP, exceeding the value of its legal exports, the UNODC said in its ...

Afghan farmers have lost income of more than $1 billion from opium sales after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation, according to a report from the U.N. drugs agency published Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023.

Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban, U.N. says By Charlotte Greenfield November 4, 202310:08 PM PDTUpdated November 5, 2023 ...

The total value of Afghanistan's opiates production in 2021 was $1.8-$2.7 billion, up to 14% of the country's GDP, exceeding the value of its legal exports, the UNODC said in its most recent report.

Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban that almost eradicated the crop. The 19 percent increase year-on-year ...

This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall as they get ready to harvest opium from a new variety of poppy seeds said to boost yield of the resin that produces heroin.The plants ...

Taliban eradicate a poppy field in Washir, district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation ...

1 Armed guards watch as the Taliban's anti-narcotics police destroy poppy fields outside of Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan on May 1. The Taliban banned poppy cultivation in April 2022.

Drug addiction in Afghanistan is an ignored but growing epidemic. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in 2020, poppy cultivation increased by 37 percent.

Washington spent an estimated $8.6 billion between 2002 and 2017 to throttle Afghanistan's drug trade in order to deny the Taliban funds, according to a 2018 SIGAR report. Apart from poppy ...

Hundreds of Afghan farmers protested Monday against a government plan to destroy three-quarters of the country's opium-poppy crop, which is supplying the heroin market worldwide.