AIBAK (Pajhwok): About 2,000 hectares of land has been cultivated with poppy crop in two districts of northern Samangan province this season, ending a decade long poppy free status of the province.
Haji Raz Mohammad, Smangan provincial council deputy head, told a ceremony marking ‘National Mobilization Week for Combating Narcotics’ that Samangan had been a poppy free province for nearly 10 years but this year the crop was grown on 2,000 hectares of land in Dara-i-Sauf Paeen and Doab districts.
Linking the increase in poppy cultivation to unemployment, poverty and insecurity . . .
