Poppy

AIBAK (Pajhwok): More than 300 acres of land has been cleared of poppy crop as a result of an ongoing eradication campaign in Dara .

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): The increasing insecurity has resulted in a widespread cultivation of poppy crop in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on . . .

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): The governor of northeastern Badakhshan province on Tuesday said irresponsible armed men and some government officials were involved in drug smuggling and .

ASADBAD (Pajhwok): A poppy eradication campaign has been launched to destroy the illicit plant on a 400 hectors of land in eastern Kunar province .

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Poppy crop on 300 hectares of land has been destroyed in four districts of eastern Nangarhar province as part of an ongoing .

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The counternarcotics department head for eastern Nangahar province says the ongoing anti-poppy campaign in the province has been struggling with security . .

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Poppy cultivation has increased in volatile areas and decreased in comparatively secure parts of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Monday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Farmers have grown poppy crop in their fields for a second year in northern Balkh province, which once remained poppy . . .

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Farmers in northern Balkh province say they grow poppy crop in their fields because food crops could not meet their . . .

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Farmers who previously sowed wheat crop have this year cultivated poppy plant in their fields in southern Helmand province due to increasing .

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The process to harvest poppy crop has been kicked off in some districts of eastern Nangrahar province, while the government is yet .

TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Poppy crop grown near the governor’s house and the police headquarters in central Uruzgan province has matured, but the authorities have . .