Opium poppy cultivation is resurging in Afghanistan as the Taliban's ban on cultivation frays, worn down by a practical problem: legal crops no longer pay and many Afghan farmers say they are struggling to feed their children

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In April 2022, the Taliban banned opium cultivation in Afghanistan. Opium production there collapsed by 95%. The world did not become safer. It became more dangerous. Myanmar filled the gap - growing from 420 tons of opium in 2021 to over 1,000 tons in 2025. Myanmar now accounts for nearly half of all global opium supply. And because the Afghan supply dried up, traffickers are increasingly shifting to synthetic opioids - fentanyl, nitazenes - which are far more potent and far more deadly. The Taliban accidentally made the opioid crisis worse.

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#WATCH# | West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: A joint multi-agency team has successfully cleared approximately 458 acres of illicit cannabis cultivation in the Kalaktang subdivision of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. Conducted as the first phase of an intensive eradication drive from October 26 to November 3, 2026, the operation led to the destruction of over 1.37 lakh kg of cannabis plants primarily cultivated on community lands. (Source: NCB)