Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have been extra profitable in cracking down on opium than anybody ever has, a BBC investigation has discovered.
The BBC has travelled to main poppy rising areas and had unique entry to distant provinces the place our journalists have seen that farmers have both not grown opium poppy complying with the Taliban’s ban, or they’ve had their poppy crops destroyed in the event that they defied the order.
That is backed by analysis from UK primarily based consultants who’ve analysed satellite tv for pc photographs and stated the drop in opium cultivation is more likely to be as a lot as 80%.
The crackdown has huge international ramifications, with a lot of the world’s opium coming from Afghanistan.
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