Increased production has been driven by unusually high opium prices, but more cultivation of Afghanistan's premier cash crop is also an indication that Afghans are turning to illicit markets and ...

"The 2022 opium crop in Afghanistan is the most profitable in years, with cultivation up by one-third and prices soaring even as the country is gripped by cascading humanitarian and economic ...

In economic terminology, the opium crop in Afghanistan has major international negative externalities, and these externalities can only be fully controlled through better law enforcement.

3, 2006 — -- Already the world's largest producer of opium, Afghanistan's 2006 output ... 40 percent of Afghanistan's $2.8 billion poppy crop. I travelled to Helmand in April, when the ...

Getty Images Afghanistan’s opium crop will hit a new high this year, the United Nations said Wednesday, presenting the new president with a challenge in tackling the trade fueling the Taliban ...

Things are not going well in Afghanistan. In a stunning admission that the hundreds of millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the country's opium crop had accomplished little, the United ...

Because this year Turialai, who like many Afghans uses only one name, has planted his country's No. 1 cash crop: opium poppies. "Opium traders will come," the 25-year-old, who has just finished ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

Parwiz/Reuters Afghanistan's opium crop will hit a new high this year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, presenting the new president with a challenge in tackling the trade fuelling the ...