The world’s largest producer of opium expanded poppy production by nearly 60 percent last year and generated about $3 billion of illicit economic activity in Afghanistan.
Replanting Afghanistan
More than 50 members of the Missouri National Guard are hoping to create alternatives for Afghan farmers to growing opium poppies.
Friday, September 21, 2007 | 5:16 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:35 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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