Afghanistan: Bountiful Afghan Opium Harvest Yields Profits for the Taliban

May 4, 2016 | Taimoor Shah and Mujib Mashal, New York Times
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As the opium harvest winds down across Helmand Province, Afghanistan’s largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields. The skies were generous with heavy rainfall, and the Afghan government with its cancellation of annual eradication campaigns. It had lost much of the territory in Helmand to the Taliban anyway.