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 Afghanistan: Opium cultivation banned complete:

With americaA withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban imposed a whole ban on poppy cultivation.  The Taliban have additionally introduced a ban on poppy cultivation in Kandahar's rural areas, which has caused a threefold upward thrust in opium expenses on the sector market. Opium is the maximum broadly grown crop in Afghanistan's 3 provinces.  The charge of opium withinside the country, which incorporates Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan, has risen from  70 in line with kg to 2 hundred in keeping with kg for the reason that Taliban's announcement.  About eighty percentage of the sector's opium is exported from Afghanistan. The file well-knownshows that an predicted 1.5 to a few billion US greenbacks really well worth of opium is exported from Afghanistan annually.  Zabihullah Mujahid had stated in his announcement that beneathneath the brand new legal guidelines withinside the country, we are able to now no longer permit drug trade.  Earlier, poppy cultivation become banned for the duration of the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the wide variety of poppy-developing provinces in Afghanistan accelerated from 21 to 24 in 2016.  In Nimroz province, 116 in step with cent, in Helmand seventy nine in step with cent, in Balkh 50 in line with cent, in Uruzgan 39 in step with cent and in Kandahar 37 in line with cent poppy become cultivated.  The Afghan Taliban have accused US and NATO forces of seeking to intoxicate the Afghan people.