Afghanistan Opium Crop Hits New High : In 2001 only 12,500 thousand acres were under cultivation since the US removed the Taliban,Total opium cultivation has skyrocketed to just over 516,500 acres in 2013 to around 553,500 acres in 2014. Those half a million acres of opium poppy means Afghanistan is capable of producing up to 6,400 tons of opium this year. The report found that 89 percent of Afghanistan’s opium comes from nine provinces in south and west Afghanistan, including the most dangerous provinces in the country.

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