Afghanistan: Poppies Bloom across Afghanistan as Drought Eases

Apr 18, 2019 | Muhammad Irfan, UrduPoint
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A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade. The sight of a seemingly endless expanse of opium-producing flowers is common across rural Afghanistan, but this farm is in the centre of government-controlled Lashkar Gah city -- the capital of Helmand province.