With over 2000 Tons per year Afghanistan is the largest Opium producer in the world. Harvested in the high mountains, smuggled to Pakistan, processed into heroin and then exported all over the world ? the Central Asian Opium networks rules the drug trade. Eradication programs like in Uzbekistan and UN monitoring of opium production is a battle lost in advance. The farmers continue today with their deadly harvest.
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