Afghanistan - Heroin crop increase
November 25, 2012, Sunday
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AFGHAN efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last year, the UN said in a report released Tuesday.
Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient in heroin, providing 80 percent of the global crop. Crop sales fund insurgents and criminal gangs in Afghanistan, making it difficult for the Afghan government to establish control in areas where the economy is driven by opium.
Farmers planted 154,000 hectares of opium poppy in 2011, up from the 131,000 in 2011.
Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient in heroin, providing 80 percent of the global crop. Crop sales fund insurgents and criminal gangs in Afghanistan, making it difficult for the Afghan government to establish control in areas where the economy is driven by opium.
Farmers planted 154,000 hectares of opium poppy in 2011, up from the 131,000 in 2011.
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