Afghanistan's ruling Taliban introduced a ban on harvesting poppies, whilst farmers in some components of the nation started extracting the opium from the plant that's wanted for making heroin.
The Taliban warned farmers that their crops will probably be burned and that they are often jailed in the event that they proceed with the harvest.
The harvest and planting seasons range throughout Afghanistan. Within the Taliban heartland of southern Kandahar the harvesting has begun, however within the east of the nation, some farmers are simply starting to plant their crop.
In desperately poor Afghanistan the ban appears sure to additional impoverish its poorest residents at a time when the nation is in an financial free fall.
The decree was introduced by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid at a information convention within the capital of Kabul.
The order additionally outlawed the manufacturing of narcotics and the transportation, commerce, export and import of heroin, cannabis and alcohol.
The ban is paying homage to the earlier Taliban rule within the late Nineteen Nineties when the motion espousing a harsh interpretation of Islam outlawed poppy manufacturing.
At the moment, the ban was applied countrywide inside two years, and in line with the U.N., largely helped eradicate poppy manufacturing.
Nevertheless, after the ousting of the Taliban in 2001, farmers in lots of components of the nation returned to poppy manufacturing.
Poppies are the primary supply of revenue for thousands and thousands of small farmers and day labourers who can earn upwards of $300 (€274) a month harvesting them and extracting the opium.
Right this moment, Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, regardless of billions of dollars spent by the worldwide group throughout its 20 years in Afghanistan to eradicate the drug.
In 2021, earlier than the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan produced greater than 6,000 tonnes of opium, which the U.N. Workplace on Medicine and Crime mentioned might probably yield 320 tonnes of pure heroin.
Afghanistan produces extra opium than all opium-producing international locations mixed and final yr was the sixth straight yr of file opium harvests.
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