Huge rise in Afghan opium
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The United Nations warns of a massive 59% increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan this year.
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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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Poppy cultivation and opium production will continue to increase in Afghanistan, expanding the dangerous influence of drug lords at all levels of the government of President
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Sophisticated laboratories inside Afghanistan are now converting 90 percent of the country&#39;s opium into heroin and morphine before smuggling it around the world, the United Nations said.
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Afghanistan&#39;s opium production has doubled in two years, reaching a new high in 2007, with the country almost the exclusive supplier of the world&#39;s deadliest drug, the United Nations announced Monday.
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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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The international community is making significant strides toward ridding northern Afghanistan of opium, a U.S. counter-narcotics official said Friday, despite setbacks in the Taliban-controlled south and forecasts of another record year of poppy cultivation.
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Afghanistan's soaring opium trade threatens to wreck rebuilding efforts, the UN and World Bank warn.
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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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Afghanistan's booming opium trade is a huge concern for Pakistan as it confronts the spread of HIV/AIDS, especially among intravenous drug users, Pakistan's minister of health said on Wednesday.
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Responding to a U.N. report warning it risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to record levels, Afghanistan said Friday the war on drugs was the top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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Afghanistan's counter narcotics ministry said that opium cultivation had likely increased this year even though three times more poppy fields had been eradicated than last year.
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KABUL, Afghanistan _ Afghanistan&#39;s newly inaugurated President Hamid Karzai is pushing the fight to control the nation&#39;s booming drug trade to the top of his to-do list.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose a "staggering"  59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drug chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.
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A U.S. report warns that an increase in poppy cultivation will expand the influence of drug lords on Afghanistan's government.
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Responding to a U.N. report warning it  risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to  record levels, Afghanistan said Friday the war on drugs was the  top priority but it opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.