Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban banned poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the flower that produces the opium used to make heroin. Farmers were warned that if they proceed, they could be jailed and their crops burned.
Today, Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium and in 2021, before the Taliban takeover, produced more than 6,000 tons of opium, which a report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said could potentially yield 320 tons of pure heroin.
Washington spent more than $8 billion trying to eradicate poppy production in Afghanistan during its nearly 20-year war, which ended with the return of the Taliban in August. In desperately poor Afghanistan the ban on poppy production will further impoverish its poorest citizens. Poppy production and income are often used as a form of banking among Afghanistan’s poorest who use the promise of the next year’s harvest to buy staples such as flour, sugar, cooking oil and heating oil.
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