{"id":86496,"date":"2017-11-15T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/poppy-cultivation-increases-by-87-per-cent\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:31:47","slug":"poppy-cultivation-increases-by-87-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/poppy-cultivation-increases-by-87-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy cultivation increases by 87 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KABUL (SW): The Ministry of Counter-Narcotics and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed on Wednesday that the poppy cultivation has increased by 87 percent this year.<\/p>\n

Jawed Ahmad, director for the Ministry of Counter-Narcotics, told the presser in Kabul in this connection that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was estimated at 328,000 hectares in 2017, a 63% increase or 127,000 hectares more compared to the previous year. “In 2017, the potential production of opium has reached to nine thousand metric tons which is 87% more than that in 2016”.<\/p>\n

According to the study, this level of opium poppy cultivation is a new record high and exceeds the formerly highest value recorded in 2014 (224,000 hectares) by 104,000 hectares or 46%. Strong increases were observed in almost all major poppy cultivating provinces.<\/p>\n

Representatives of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) expressed their support for the Afghan government against poppy cultivation. According to the director for the Ministry of Counter-Narcotics, reasons behind this surge are increased violence, poverty and decrease in international aid for counter-narcotics efforts.<\/p>\n

Abdul Khalil Bakhtyari, director at the Ministry of Interior, told the moot in this connection that the security forces have conducted more than two thousand counter-narcotics operations, and have arrested more than two thousand smugglers. This comprised 13 foreigners including five citizens of Pakistan and eight of Iran.<\/p>\n

A previous UN report in 2011 had stated that the net value of poppy cultivated in Afghanistan was worth some $68 billion. Only $470 million of it goes to the Afghan farmers, up to $150 to the Taliban, $1.2 billion to the local smugglers, $2 billion to Pakistani smugglers and the rest goes to the international smugglers.<\/p>\n

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