report in Khaama Press online, July 15, 2023
Poppy cultivation had been eradicated from 40,000 acres of land in the northern province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in the past three months.
Shafiqullah Hafizi, the director of the counter-narcotics police department in the province of Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan, reported that during the past three months, poppy had been eradicated from 40,000 acres of land.
“The poppy eradication campaign started three months ago, and so far, we have destroyed 40,000 acres of poppy, and the process will continue until the poppy fields are completely demolished in the province,” Hafizi said.
The official said the anti-poppy campaign would be over within a few days.
On Wednesday, police in the Jawzjan province of northern Afghanistan dismantled a drug processing lab and detained its owner. Last week, authorities also destroyed 20 acres of poppies in the eastern province of Ghazni.
Earlier, the Iranian permanent representative to the UN, Saeed Iravani, said that the UNSC expressed the expansion of drug production in Afghanistan.
According to Iran’s representative to the UN, drug trafficking in Afghanistan has not been completely abolished, and the illicit trade still thrives there. According to Sharq Daily, Mr Iravani also highlighted concerns about the growth of methamphetamine testing facilities in Afghanistan. https://www.khaama.com/police-destroy-poppy-on-40000-acres-of-land-in-afghanistans-badakhshan/
