Afghan opium farmers say crop spraying made them sick
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Instead of the handful of people with skin diseases he usually deals with, Dr. Mohammed Rafi Safi says he has recently treated 30 Afghan farmers who allege their opium crops were sprayed with poison.
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An increase in Afghanistan's opium poppy crop and the illicit drugs trade is endangering rebuilding efforts the US says.
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Opium growth in Afghanistan's unstable south and southwest continues at an alarming rate, and is a windfall for anti-government forces who tax farmers, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
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Afghan farmers earned about $1 billion from opium production in 2007, by far the country's largest cash crop, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
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DOBUNDI, Afghanistan -- Anguish creased the weathered face of the opium farmer as a US-trained eradication team swept through his farm fields in this southern Afghan village.
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Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday.
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KABUL, 19 November (IRIN) - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by two-thirds, reaching an unprecedented 131,000 hectares, a new survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed on Thursday.
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Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels &#151; up by more than 40 percent from 2005 &#151; despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press.
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Afghan opium poppy cultivation exploded to a record high this year, with the multibillion-dollar trade fueled by Taliban militants and corrupt officials in President Hamid Karzai's government, a U.N. report said Monday.
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A record Afghan opium poppy crop means more will die of heroin overdoses in European cities, the UN warns.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs warns.
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About 80 people in Japan fall ill after eating imported dumplings containing insecticide
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VIENNA -- Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a UN report said today .
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Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations said on Monday.
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SOFIA: Farmers in the southeastern Afghan province of Ningharhar are to turn from opium production to instead produce rose oil, a key component of perfume, by planting 40,000 Bulgarian rose plants, a report ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 â Opium cultivation in Afghanistan grew by 17 percent in 2007, reaching record levels for the second straight year, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers - not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters - for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running mate, saying the country's landmark el ections are a threat to their business.    The attack Wednesday in the mountainous northeastern poppy-growing region of Badakhshan killed one person and wounded at least five others - including the former governor...