KABUL last year, says the United States.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said this in the US government’s annual estimate of drug production on Friday.
The report said Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation had decreased in 2019 compared to 2018, but potential pure opium production had gone up.
The report said poppy cultivation in Afghanistan declined by 28 percent from 221,000 hectares in 2018 to 160,000 hectares in 2019.
But opium production rose by 21 percent . . .
