Afghan Opium Trade Hits New Peak
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 -- Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 34 percent over the past year, and the country is now the source of 93 percent of the heroin, morphine and other opiates on the world market, according to a report by the United Nations' anti-drug agency.
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Afghanistan will take a generation to wipe out the opium trade, which is fed by graft and the grip of a small but increasingly powerful band of drug lords with political connections, a new U.N. and World Bank report says.
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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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Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Columbia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations said on Monday.
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The smuggling of Afghan heroin into Russia increased markedly this year, Moscow's interior minister reports.
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Afghanistan&#39;s poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87% of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country&#39;s descent into a drugs-based economy.
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A new report on Afghanistan's drugs trade urges investment to provide alternative livelihoods for farmers.
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The politically sensitive Chinese trade surplus surged to a record $26.9 billion in June, potentially heightening tensions with the United States.
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The United States says it expected Afghanistan&#39;s illicit poppy crop to jump by an alarming 239 per cent over the past year. &quot;Current cultivation levels equate to a potential production of 4,950 tonnes of opium
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Afghanistan could be "taken down" by its booming illegal drug trade, a senior U.S. anti-narcotics official warned Saturday, ahead of the scheduled release of U.N. opium crop data expected to show a massive increase in cultivation this year.
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KABUL, 19 Nov 2004 (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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Afghanistan's 2007 opium poppy cultivation could expand again after a record crop last year, the U.N. drug agency said Monday, underlining the weakness of an international-backed drive against the country's booming narcotics trade.
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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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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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Singapore's exports expanded by 17 percent to a record high last year, reflecting strong demand from China for oil and commodities and solid sales of electronics and pharmaceuticals to the United States and European Union.
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The world needs to invest more than $2 billion in irrigation, roads and other rural development to wean Afghanistan off booming opium cultivation
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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.