Poor harvests make it difficult for many farmers worldwide to stay afloat. Farmers issue warning as worsening crisis ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Taliban ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Not so long ago, Afghan farmers collected the thick winter undercoat their goats shed every spring and threw it on the fire to heat their homes and cook their food. Some have ...

Finding a safe house in Afghanistan for saffron - that's right, saffron. The spice was high on Mohammad's list as he watched the Taliban take over his home country. Now, we're just using his first ...

In the spring, the Taliban announced a ban on the cultivation, trafficking, and use of illicit narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium. But as the fall planting season for ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 9, 2011 -- Afghan farmers were tearing up the dirt Sunday as they received the keys to 50 two-wheeled tractors. Afghanistan currently produces less food than its people need.

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar is now the world’s largest producer of opium, according to a recent report from the United Nations. Myanmar’s new dominance in the international opium market ...

After deadly cross-border military clashes, the Pakistani and Afghan governments have locked their populations in a trade war ...

ABC7 caught up with First Sergeant John Hanson and his family on a visit to San Francisco, just before he shipped out to Afghanistan, for a unique tour of duty. He and a team of more than 60 soldiers ...

Afghanistan produces about 90 percent of the world's supply of opium poppies, the plant used to make heroin. About half of that supply comes from the Helmand province. Earlier efforts by NATO forces ...