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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged almost 95% percent in Afghanistan since the Taliban banned the crop last year.

UN officials said that while this trend could help in the fight against the illicit opium trade, it also presented risks to a population that has long depended on the poppy trade for their livelihood.

Angela Me is the chief of research at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She told Newsday they reached this conclusion after monitoring 鈥�900 satellite images鈥� of poppy fields in Afghanistan. She says farmers have turned to 鈥渃ereals, mostly wheat鈥�, and that this is 鈥渁 huge loss for the farmers because opium clearly is much more profitable than wheat鈥�we estimated that in the four main producing provinces, farmers lost about $1billion US dollars鈥�We need to support the farmers to make this drop sustainable.鈥�

(Picture: Shows a worker collecting poppy tears, a raw form of opium at a plantation in Zhari district in Kandahar on March 28th 2022.)

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