The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it ...

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged more than 90 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop last April, according to a UN report published on Sunday.

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The ...

Poppy cultivation and opiate production soared to record levels in the years that followed the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan, even though the United States was the largest donor for the ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a ...

Afghan opium cultivation bouncing back amid Taliban clampdown. Poppy planting remains far below pre-ban levels, United Nations reports, despite rise of 19 percent year on year.

Saleh and his family express heartfelt gratitude to DCA and UNODC for their critical support. They strongly advocate for ...

Manipur lost a staggering 52,000 acres of forest area in just four years between 2021 and 2025, a study by space analytics firm Suhora said.

VIENNA — Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits" to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations' drugs ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Cultivation of the Poppy and Manufacture of Opium ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 17 (April 1869), p. 264 doi:10.1038 ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned ...