An annual survey of opium cultivation in Afghanistan has confirmed previous reports that the farming of poppies has reached an all-time high.
The survey, conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Counternarcotics, comes less than a month after Washington’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR, called the effectiveness of the United States’ $7.6-billion eradication programs into question.
According to the UNODC survey, net opium cultivation reached 578,000 acres in 2014, an increase of 7% over 2013.
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