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Julia O’Driscoll

The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan

Cultivation in former poppy-growing heartland Helmand has been slashed from 120,000 hectares to less than 1,000

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground suggest.

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