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Departments.(Periscope)(opium trade slows down in Afghanistan)(Brief article)
The United Nations' annual report on Afghanistan's poppy cultivation shows that the opium flood that has gripped the country since 2001 may be slowly starting to wane.
18 Number of Afghan provinces that are now poppy-free, up from 13 in 2007. Support from local leaders has helped curb opium production in the northern and eastern provinces.
157 Thousands of hectares of opium cultivated in 2008, a 19 percent decrease from the record harvest of 193,000 in 2007. Drought contributed to this year's decline.
98 Percentage of the country's opium crop that is grown in just seven southwestern ...
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