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The United Nations revealed in a study published on Sunday that, under Taliban rule, Afghanistan’s opium supply dropped by 95 percent in one year and the nation’s opiate economy has experienced “near-total contraction.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization, currently operating as the uncontested government of Afghanistan, took over the country in August 2021 after being out of power during the 20-year American presence there.
The Taliban – which the UNODC euphemistically referred to as the “de-facto authorities” of Afghanistan – reportedly had no substantive programs to help farmers who stopped cultivating opium. Many turned to wheat, which “shares a similar crop cycle with opium poppy” but is far less expensive, meaning farmers were profiting significantly less from similar work on a similarly sized piece of land. About 68 percent of opium fields documented in 2022 now featured wheat and other cereals, the U.N.
The discussion of what crops could replace opium also does not address the situation with those employed in opium and heroin cultivation who are not farmers.
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