Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2022 up by 32 per cent: UNODC survey
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VIENNA, 1 November (UN Information Service) – The 2022 opium crop in Afghanistan is the most profitable in years with cultivation up by nearly one-third and prices soaring, even as the country is gripped by cascading humanitarian and economic crises, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime …