The tomato crop is of good quality.

Last year, there was a bad harvest.

Afghanistan s Opium War

Opium is choking Afghan society.

Opium production has increased.

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

After the fourth year, Paavo finally gets a rich crop.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

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.

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

The farmer may even plant a crop that he knows will fail.

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

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.

Efforts to protect the 2005 cashew crop from being severely affected by the locust invasion will continue.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

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

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 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.

Millet is the crop that keeps most people alive here.

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

We also endorse the efforts made by the Government of Afghanistan and the international community to end poppy cultivation, to build relevant judicial and police capacity and to provide sustainable alternative livelihoods for those engaged in poppy cultivation.

To this end, he calls on the Government to ensure that, in the interim, the basic needs of former opium farmers are met and sufficient resources allocated to those whose livelihoods depended upon opium generated income.

Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.

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

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

While the most recent UNODC survey showed a 21 per cent decline in opium cultivation there, in some areas it had increased owing to corruption.

The cropping of oilseeds takes place annually, thereby reducing long term investment requirements.

But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

The showers of the Arab Spring have not produced an attractive crop of leaders, let alone a harvest of democracy.

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

While hiding out in the caves of Yenan, Mao became a distributor of opium.

(f) A credible, targeted and verified eradication campaign

(f) A credible, targeted and verified eradication campaign

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

Widespread armed conflict in the surrounding region from the mid 1990s resulted in a decline in the fisheries harvest.

As members are aware, my country's development depends partly on the cotton crop, which unfortunately is in a state of crisis that is becoming endemic.

Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.

Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.

Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.

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

For the third consecutive year, the total area used for growing cocaine crops has been reduced.

Urges all the Governments of countries where opium poppy has not been cultivated for the licit production of opiate raw materials, in the spirit of collective responsibility, to refrain from engaging in the commercial cultivation of opium poppy, in order to avoid the proliferation of supply sites

Rather than cultivating sugar, it was tobacco that had drawn Warner to the island, and it was the island's tobacco crop that first supported the settlement.