JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Batikot district chief in eastern Nangarhar province says the illicit poppy crop has been cultivated on government-owned land this year.
Ghalib Mujahid told Pajhwok Afghan News in an exclusive interview poppies had been grown at the canalisation department’s land.
Thousands of acres of land are located in the district. The arable land has olive tree farms. Most of the farms are under Taliban control.
However, according to Mujahid, the land’s lease is collected twice, once by the government and then by the insurgents.
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