Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand. For a brief period after a Taliban ban on poppies in 2000 ...

Opium is now being produced in the country's ... The only exception was the Helmand province which saw an increase of more ...

Last year, satellite images showed that opium production had dropped by 99.9 percent in Helmand and by almost 90 percent in Kandahar, once the heartland of cultivation. But in the provincial ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the ... by geospatial firm Alcis indicates that in Helmand, previously a leading poppy-growing region ...