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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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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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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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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ChinaÂs trade surplus with the world ballooned last month to $18.8 billion as exports soared, according to preliminary customs figures.
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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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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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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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The US says opium production in Afghanistan reached record levels last year, undermining the fight against the Taleban.
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Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on the verge of becoming world's biggest drugs supplier.
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s opium trade has revived and is thriving under the country&#39;s US-backed leaders and experts say that is not likely to change any time soon no matter who
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The United Nations warns of a massive 59% increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan this year.
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BRUSSELS -- Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a UN report yesterday that called on US and NATO-led forces to get more involved in fighting traffickers.
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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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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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Helmand province set to become world's biggest drug supplier, cultivating more drugs than entire countries such as Colombia, UN report says.