Afghanistan’s Opium Fields Vanish After Taliban Ban #AfghanistanNews #OpiumBan #UNReport Opium farming in Afghanistan has plummeted following the Taliban’s 2022 ban, the United Nations reports. The total area for opium poppy cultivation has dropped by 20%, with overall production down 32%. Once the world’s top opium producer, Afghanistan’s poppy fields have mostly disappeared, and provinces like Balkh and Uruzgan are now poppy-free. But farmers face a harsh choice obey the ban and sink into pove

For many farmers in conflict and coup-riven Myanmar, poppy farming has become their only way of making ends meet amid the social and economic turmoil across the country. The opium resin extracted from the poppies is then refined into heroin destined for the world market - with Myanmar overtaking Afghanistan as the world's biggest producer in 2023. | AFP News Agency | Facebook