Afghan Opium Cultivation Reaches Record High, UN Says
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Afghanistan&#39;s opium cultivation jumped 64 percent to a record 324,000 acres this year and drug exports now account for more than 60 percent of the economy, the United Nations drugs office said Thursday.
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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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Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs warns.
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Reuters London Oct 29: UN figures on Afghanistan will show a big rise in drug cultivation and production in the past year, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw has said, as he chided international donors for not meeting their pledges.
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The Taliban has seen a resurgence in Afghanistan due in part to proceeds from the nation's drug trade. Afghanistan produces about 93 percent of the world's illicit opium, despite U.S. efforts to eradicate it. "You can try to kill us but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.
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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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The amount of opium poppy cultivated in Afghanistan's volatile southern provinces will increase in 2008, the UN says.
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has declared a holy war on the drugs trade gripping his war-shattered country, which produces nearly nine-tenths of the world&#39;s opium.
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Afghans significantly increased their poppy crop in the past year, fueling a narcotics trade that endangers U.S.-led efforts to stabilize the country, officials said Thursday.
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Afghanistan's counter-narcotics minister has resigned, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday, as the country brings in what is expected to be another record harvest of opium, a crop which is funding Taliban insurgents.
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Afghanistan's opium cultivation jumped  64 percent to a record 324,000 acres this year and drug exports  now account for more than 60 percent of the economy, the United  Nations drugs office said Thursday.
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Efforts to slash opium production in Asia are having mixed results, with cultivation up massively in Afghanistan but almost wiped out in the Golden Triangle region, a United Nations report said.
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Afghanistan's soaring opium trade threatens to wreck rebuilding efforts, the UN and World Bank warn.
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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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Although opium production is up in Afghanistan, cocaine consumption is rising in Europe and trafficking is growing in Africa, drug abuse is being brought under control.
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Country produces 87% of global opium. One in ten Afghans works in opium trade. UN: state is world&#39;s second worst to live in. By Nick Meo in Jalalabad and Leonard Doyle.
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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.