Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is likely...
21% of Afghanistan"s production according to the UNODC report "Addiction, Crime and Insurgency."The report, published in October last year, said at least 70 tons of heroin were trafficked to Russia in 2008 - three times more than to the United States and Canada combined, and much more than previously estimated.
Wednesday"s report on the prospects for 2010 said that although the price of opium fell over the past year, the prices for wheat and maize dropped even more, meaning farmers had less incentive to stop planting poppies.
"None of Afghanistan"s licit agricultural products can currently match the gross income per hectare from opium, although the difference is not as high as it used to be some years ago," the report said.
It also said that 79 % of villages with very poor security conditions grew poppy, "while opium grows in only 7 percent of villages unaffected by violence."
"This is further proof of the overlap between high insecurity and
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