The Opium Ban: The impact on small farmers, sharecroppers and labourers in Helmand province
Ali Mohammad Sabawoon
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Jelena Bjelica
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In what used to be Afghanistan’s largest poppy-growing province, Helmand, cultivation plummeted by 99 per cent in 2023 following the Islamic Emirate’s ban on the crop in April 2022. Although opium trading largely continued, which brought windfall profits to anyone with opium stocks to sell, the ban on cultivation has caused unemployment and an economic […]
Economy, Development, Environment
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