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2023-06-12 India-Pakistan

War on Drugs: Admin cracks whip on poppy cultivators

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-12 03:54|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top
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#1 The 2022 opium crop in Afghanistan is the most profitable in years with cultivation up by nearly one-third and prices soaring, even as the country is gripped by cascading humanitarian and economic crises, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan – latest findings and emerging threats is the first report on the illicit opium economy since the Taliban, which assumed power in August 2021, banned cultivation of opium poppy and all narcotics in April 2022. This year’s harvest was largely exempted from the decree, and farmers in Afghanistan must now decide on planting opium poppy for next year amid continued uncertainty about how the de facto authorities will enforce the ban. Sowing of the main 2023 opium crop must be done by early November 2022.
“Afghan farmers are trapped in the illicit opiate economy, while seizure events around Afghanistan suggest that opiate trafficking continues unabated,” said UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly upon the survey’s launch.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-06-12 07:21|| 2023-06-12 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 All of this "farming" may eventually bring about a Chinese response. Perhaps leaving all of that military hardware behind will soon be paying an unexpected dividend.

Unexpected by the extremely short-sighted Biden administration intelligence community of course. A region hegemony speed bump for China would have never been sanctioned.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-12 07:31|| 2023-06-12 07:31|| Front Page Top

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