KABUL this season for the first time in six years, a new survey released on Wednesday indicated.
The joint survey by the Ministry of Counternarcotics and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows 183,000 hectares of land was cultivated with the illicit poppy crop in 2015 --- down 19 percent from 2014 when 224,000 hectares of land was brought under poppy cultivation.
The survey also records a 48 percent drop in opium production from 6,400 tonnes last year to 3,300 tonnes . . .
