Cultivation of opium has skyrocketed since the topple of taliban
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... pub804.pdf
Note - Industrial grade farming could not be carried out by the afghans, the infrastructure is obviously from foreign companies.
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Cultivation of opium has skyrocketed since the topple of taliban
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... pub804.pdf
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.
A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.