Taliban announces a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer
Taliban banned poppy production, even as farmers across many parts of the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces lucrative opium which is used to make heroin.
"As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country," according to an order from the Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. Afghanistan's opium production - which the United Nations estimated was worth $1.4 billion at its height in 2017 - has increased in recent months, farmers and Taliban members told Reuters news agency.
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