Opium Production - Visualizing Conflict Interest (sitios de interés)
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Afghanistan produced a record opium poppy crop in 2007, supplying 93% of the world's opium.An estimated 85% of Afghans are dependent on agriculture and related agribusinesses for their livelihoods. Opium poppy production and the opium trade continue to have a significant monetary share of the country’s agricultural economy.
In 2009, the United States significantly revised its counter-narcotics strategy for Afghanistan, ending direct involvement in eradication of poppy and increasing support for licit agriculture and interdiction.Poppy is easy to cultivate and opium is easily transported.
Much of Afghanistan's opium production is refined into heroin and is either consumed by a growing regional addict population or exported, primarily to Western Europe.