“Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose substantially in 2012 in an ‘alarming’ trend despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said this week as they released the organisation’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics”

By Alissa J Rubin, Asia World News, November 22, 2012.

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