Opium trade blooms in Afghanistan as country s economy wilts after Taliban takeover

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: With Afghanistans economy on the brink of collapse, farmers in the southern city of Kandahar are turning to the regions most lucrative cash crop opium poppies. Opium prices have risen threefold after the Taliban promised not to become a narcostate and end its reliance on the opium harvest. For decades, the Taliban funded its insurgency partly through the opium trade, according to the United Nations, whose data showed that in 2020, 85 per cent of the worlds opium was grown in Afghanistan. Support us: Follow us on: Website: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Linkedin: , scmp, Asia, Afghanistan