Wielki interen na narkotykach w Afganistanie. To jest glowny export tego kraju po wprowadzeniu Demokracji. The UNODC estimated the total value of Afghan poppy cultivation, together with opium products, in 2013 at about $3 billion, a 50 percent increase over the $2 billion level set in 2012. rt/news/197708-afghanistan-opium-us-war/ Sopko attributes this increase to “deteriorating security in many parts of Afghanistan and low levels of eradication of poppy fields.” He went on to predict “further increases in cultivation” in 2014. The US official pointed to more-effective irrigation techniques based on deep-well technology imported to Afghanistan that have given Afghan farmers the ability to turn “200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) of desert in southwestern Afghanistan into arable land,” Reuters reported. The US Embassy in Kabul called the latest information on opium poppy production in Afghanistan disappointing news, it said in a statement. Essentially, poppy cultivation has shifted from areas where government presence is broadly supported and security has improved, toward more remote and isolated areas where governance is weak and security is inadequate, it said, as quoted by Reuters. The “unprecedented” surge in opium poppy cultivation comes as an embarrassment for US reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, where before the US invasion in 2001 the Taliban had effectively eliminated the trade. Today, in an ironic twist, the illegal trade is providing a financial boost to the Taliban’s resurgence.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:32:20 +0000
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