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Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have launched a campaign to stop poppy cultivation, with the aim of eradicating mass production of opium and heroin.
Farmers have said that with this decision they will no longer have financial income, as poverty in Afghanistan is deepening.
The Taliban, which took power last August, announced in early April that they would stop cultivating poppies.
Those who violate the ban “will be arrested and prosecuted under Sharia law,” Taliban anti-drug minister Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund told the Associated Press.
Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium and also a major source of heroin transported to Europe and Asia. Production of these narcotics has increased in the last 20 years despite the United States spending billions of dollars on efforts to stop poppy cultivation.
However, stopping the Taliban is expected to hit millions of poor farmers and laborers who depend financially on cultivating this plant.
The ban on poppy cultivation comes at a time when Afghanistan’s economy has collapsed as the country cut off international aid after the Taliban regained power.
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