GLOBAL OPIUM PRODUCTION
Aug 29th 2007
From Economist.com
AFGHANISTAN'S opium crop is set to hit a new high this year, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. In its annual Afghanistan Opium Survey, published on Monday August 27th, it estimates that production will soar to 8,200 tonnes in 2007, a third more than in 2006. The whole country's share of global production has edged up to 93%. Prevention is a Sisyphean task; while the area from which opium poppies were eradicated increased by a quarter to 19,000 hectares, there are still 193,000 hectares under cultivation.
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