Licensing the opium crop would be a realistic and pragmatic cornerstone of that strategy s success.

In 43 States (48 per cent of respondents), the national plans included illicit crop eradication and other law enforcement measures targeting opium poppy (21 States), coca bush (6 States) and or cannabis (38 States).

Afghanistan s Opium War

Opium production has increased.

Afghanistan remains the world's largest supplier of opium, producing 87 per cent of the world's opium.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite concerted efforts at eradication and crop substitution, Afghanistan produced 87 of the world s opium in 2005 roughly 4.1 tons generating 2.7 billion of illegal revenue, which amounts to roughly 52 of the country s GDP. The 2005 Afghanistan Opium Survey, released last November, estimates that the total value of this opium, once turned into heroin and distributed around the world, could reach more than 40 billion.

Opium is choking Afghan society.

Winning with Opium in Afghanistan

Calls upon the International community to increase its assistance to enhance the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to curb the Plantation of Opium Poppies, production and trafficking of narcotics and to strengthen crop substitution program in Afghanistan.

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Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

The study found that both raw material production systems (opium and opium straw) had inherent potential for diversion and abuse.

NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.

These include crop rotation, increased crop diversification, and introducing integrated pest management systems.

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Second Opium War In China, France took part in the Second Opium War along with Britain, and in 1860 French troops entered Beijing.

Moreover, while certain efforts by the Government of Afghanistan have resulted in the reduction of opium cultivation in some regions traditionally famous for opium production, opium cultivation has increased in the regions bordering my country, especially in the Farah province.

Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

Crop eradication and alternative development

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The British, Americans and French fought several naval battles with war junks in the 19th century, during the First Opium War, Second Opium War and in between.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

The old tool for managing farmers risks is crop insurance, which responds directly to the failure of a crop.

This is why private crop insurers are in short supply, and why crop insurance often requires expensive government subsidies.

Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.

But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

The country now produces about 90 of the world's opium.

Unfortunately, Afghanistan's share of opium production continues to remain high.

The winds destroyed much of the corn crop, about half of the peach crop, and about 1.5 million bushels of apples.

The tomato crop is of good quality.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

With record production of an estimated 4,200 tons of opium in Afghanistan, UNODC's 2004 opium cultivation survey registered a 64 per cent increase in the area under cultivation in that country.

The new Government of Afghanistan has been responding forcefully to the opium threat and, in December 2004, a loya jirga on countering narcotics was convened and reaffirmed the opium poppy ban.

The farmer may neglect the crop or refuse to invest in saving a failing crop if he knows that a payout is forthcoming.

Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.

Improving security and the rule of law must include destroying the opium trade.

After opium, fruits and nuts are the second most exported item from Afghanistan.

In the Netherlands it is a List 1 drug of the Opium Law.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004 (November 2004).

The Special Rapporteur welcomes the steady and remarkable reduction in opium poppy cultivation.

But a successful strategy one that responds to Afghanistan s extreme poverty crisis requires that the international community reverse course on crop eradication. In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community s goals, but it is also failing opium production last year was at an all time high.