"Latest estimates suggest that poppy cultivation has increased by up to 1,400% since the removal of the Taleban regime at the end of last year."
[....]
"Drugscope says heroin production in Afghanistan is likely to climb this year to between 1,900 and 2,700 tons.
"This compares with a figure of just 185 tons in 2001, following the ban on opium cultivation introduced by the former Taleban regime.
"That resulted in a 95% drop in production.
"Drugscope acknowledges that cultivation of the opium poppy remains well short of the levels that existed before the Taleban imposed its ban, but says it has now resumed at significant levels."
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/2282617.stm>
-- Shane
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