Afghanistan: Opium Poppy Cultivation Increased by 32% in 2022
Nov 2, 2022 | 19:23 GMT
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased by 32% over the previous year, and the 233,000 hectares of Afghan land used to cultivate opium poppy in 2022 was the "third largest area under opium cultivation since monitoring began," The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime reported Nov. 1....