Opium production up 50 percent in Afghanistan: UN report
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Efforts to slash opium production in Asia are having mixed results, with cultivation up massively in Afghanistan but almost wiped out in the Golden Triangle region, a United Nations report said.
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Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a UN survey to be released tomorrow.
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Afghanistan's opium production will increase by nearly 50 percent this year to a record 6,100 tonnes after an &quot;alarming&quot; jump in cultivation in the lawless south.
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Afghans significantly increased their poppy crop in the past year, fueling a narcotics trade that endangers U.S.-led efforts to stabilize the country, officials said Thursday.
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Officials blame the increase in cultivation on the resurgence of Taliban rebels in the south, the countryÂs prime opium growing region.
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The United States estimated on Thursday that Afghanistan's opium production hit a record high last year and said the narcotics trade is undermining democracy and security in the Southwest Asian U.S. ally.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe's streets, was up sharply this year.
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Opium production in Afghanistan surged to record levels in 2006, increasing the flow of heroin to Europe and the Middle East and undermining the fight against Islamist insurgents, the US reported Thursday.
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JALALABAD, November 19 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Three years after the massive US-led invasion, Afghanistan is still facing the threat of being a corrupt ânarco-stateâ after the opium production rose by two thirds this year.
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A U.N. report released Tuesday showed that the "runaway train of drug addiction" has slowed, with estimated levels of global use holding steady for the third year in a row. Afghanistan's opium production, however, increased dramatically.
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Afghanistan's opium trade has revived and  is thriving under the country's U.S.-backed leaders and experts  say that is not likely to change any time soon no matter who  wins next month's first direct presidential election.
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The US president says he is concerned at Afghanistan's escalating opium industry in his annual report on major drug producers.
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Afghanistan says its war on drugs is the top priority after a UN report warned it risked becoming a narco-state with opium cultivation jumping to record levels, but it says it opposes aerial spraying of opium fields.
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The US says opium production in Afghanistan reached record levels last year, undermining the fight against the Taleban.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs warns.
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Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations said on Monday.
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KABUL: Responding to a UN report warning it risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to record levels, Afghanistan said on Friday the war on drugs was the top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.