The Taliban's supreme spiritual leader banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022
VIENNA - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan , long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it but remains a fraction of pre-ban levels, a UN report said on Wednesday.
This year, cultivation increased an estimated 19% to 12,800 hectares and the centre of production shifted from its traditional heartland, the country's southwest, to the northeast, the latest UNODC report published on Tuesday said. Dry opium prices stabilized around $730 a kilogram in the first half of this year, far above the pre-ban average of $100, the report said. Last year's report said that in August 2023 those farm-gate prices had reached a "20-year peak" of $408.
In the northeastern region, which borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, cultivation surged 381% this year to 7,563 hectares, four times the area cultivated in the southwest, the second-biggest producer, the report said.
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