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  • "Worrying trend" of rising opium poppy cultivation 14 Dec 2009 13:30 GMT
    ... Office on Drugs and Crime warns that poppy production is once again on the rise ... by political instability and lacklustre crop prices, opium poppy cultivation is on the rise in ... major supplier of opium, but overtaken by Afghanistan since 1991. Eradication efforts in the past ...

  • LAOS-MYANMAR "Worrying trend" of rising opium poppy cultivation 14 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
    ... by political instability and lacklustre crop prices, opium poppy cultivation is on the rise in Myanmar ... major supplier of opium, but overtaken by Afghanistan since 1991. Eradication efforts in the past ...

  • Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed 15 Dec 2009 10:35 GMT
    ... his advisors debated future troop levels for Afghanistan - which resulted in the decision to ... and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium," gives the false impression that the Taliban ... place on these products. Areas of opium poppy cultivation and insecurity correlate geographically. In 2008, ...

  • INTERVIEW-U.S. spotlights rebuilding Afghan agriculture 18 Dec 2009 10:27 GMT
    ... hopes its focus on rebuilding agriculture in Afghanistan will pay off over the next two ... pistachios will convince farmers to switch from opium poppy. "We know that basically 8 out of ...

  • INTERVIEW - U.S. spotlights rebuilding Afghan agriculture 17 Dec 2009 22:35 GMT
    ... INTERVIEW - U.S. spotlights rebuilding Afghan agriculture WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States ... pistachios will convince farmers to switch from opium poppy. "We know that basically 8 out of ...

  • Afghan surge troops won't target drug crops 16 Dec 2009 13:51 GMT
    ... - Thousands of extra Marines pouring into Afghanistan's opium-growing heartland will go after those who process ... crop in this area is still the poppy. We are not making war with the ...

  • Myanmar: UN reports 'worrisome' rise in opium cultivation 14 Dec 2009 15:41 GMT
    ... Myanmar: UN reports ‘worrisome’ rise in opium cultivation Opium cultivation in Myanmar has increased ... a quarter of the amount grown in Afghanistan and a far cry from the early ... grown, according to the report – Opium Poppy Cultivation in South-East Asia ¬– produced in ...

  • Myanmar: UN reports ?worrisome? rise in opium cultivation 14 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
    ... Opium cultivation in Myanmar has increased for the ... a quarter of the amount grown in Afghanistan and a far cry from the early ... grown, according to the report " Opium Poppy Cultivation in South-East Asia "" produced in ...

  • UN Reports Rise in Opium Cultivation in Burma 14 Dec 2009 17:01 GMT
    ... United Nations officials say opium cultivation in Burma rose for the third ... - UNODC - said Monday that opium poppy cultivation in Burma rose more than 10 ... Thailand - has been far surpassed by Afghanistan over the past decade. Leik Boonwaat, UNODC ...

  • U.N. Says Opium Trade Is Expanding in Myanmar 14 Dec 2009 10:10 GMT
    ... year. An increase in the price of opium, which is used to make heroin; political ... briefing in Bangkok. The increase contrasts with Afghanistan, by far the world's largest supplier of ... where the amount of land under opium poppy cultivation has declined over the past three ...

  • Export value of Afghan opium plummeting 18 Dec 2009 01:17 GMT
    ... Export value of Afghan opium plummeting, says UN anti-drug agency 17 December 2009 – The potential export value of ...

  • Burma opium cultivation up, but yield down 14 Dec 2009 12:27 GMT
    ... Burma opium cultivation up, but yield down Dec 14, ... of the UNODC's latest survey on Opium Poppy Cultivation in Southeast Asia. It is the ... done in partnership, as we do it Afghanistan and as we do it in Laos. ...

  • Export value of Afghan opium plummeting, says UN anti-drug agency 17 Dec 2009 16:32 GMT
    ... Export value of Afghan opium plummeting, says UN anti-drug agency The potential export value of Afghanistan’s opium has dropped ...

  • Afghanistan: Value of opium exports slumps says UN 17 Dec 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... Afghanistan: Value of opium exports slumps says UN Kabul, 17 Dec. (AKI) - The potential export value of ...

  • Export Value Of Afghan Opium Plummeting , Says UN Anti-Drug Agency 17 Dec 2009 19:20 GMT
    ... The potential export value of Afghanistan’s opium has dropped 18 per cent this year, the United Nations anti-drug body reported today, ...


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