Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been destroyed, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview with TASS.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

A farmer squats with his back to the flowers, weeding an adjacent ... For centuries, opium wafted over Afghanistan before engulfing it altogether. Though Alexander the Great could not totally ...

UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan ... opium cultivation. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.

Myanmar became the world's biggest opium producer in 2023, according to the United Nations, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government launched a crackdown on the crop there. The flowers ...

However, regional disparities in cultivation levels and uncertainties surrounding the global opium market—particularly in relation to the drug ban in Afghanistan—suggest that Myanmar’s opium ...