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| Name | Opium trade blooms in Afghanistan as country’s economy wilts after Taliban takeover |
| Video Uploader | Video From South China Morning Post |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 30-09-2021 09:14:09 |
| Video Discription | Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube With Afghanistan’s economy on the brink of collapse, farmers in the southern city of Kandahar are turning to the region’s most lucrative cash crop – opium poppies. Opium prices have risen three-fold after the Taliban promised not to become a narco-state and end its reliance on the opium harvest. For decades, the Taliban funded its insurgency partly through the opium trade, according to the United Nations, whose data showed that in 2020, 85 per cent of the world’s opium was grown in Afghanistan. Support us: https://subscribe.scmp.com Follow us on: Website: https://www.scmp.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/scmp Twitter: https://twitter.com/scmpnews Instagram: https://instagram.com/scmpnews Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-china-morning-post/ #scmp #Asia #Afghanistan HC9D7M74Qb0 |
| Category | News & Politics |
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