Afghanistan’s Fluctuating Poppy Production: More Than a Poverty Problem Doris Buddenberg • Afghanistan’s area of poppy cultivation has increased by 7 per cent compared to the last year and more provinces cultivate poppy than then. This is the gist of annual opium survey for the country for 2012. There are no predictions about how many (thousands of) tons this will be. And the publishers – the UN […] 14 May 2012 Economy, Development, Environment Read more