KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Counternarcotics officials on Tuesday hoped poppy cultivation would decline in southern Kandahar province this season as a result of some development projects.
Kandahar counternarcotics chief Gul Mohammad Shukran told Pajhwok Afghan News the projects under the Food Zone programme had been carried out in districts where poppy cultivation had increased.
He was upbeat implementation of the projects would help reduce cultivation of the illicit and subsequently drug smuggling and use.
The USAID-funded Food Zone Programme is aimed at preventing poppy cultivation in Kandahar by creating awareness about the hazards . . .
