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- Amid the economic malaise in Afghanistan, there's one market raking in cash - the opium trade. The UN has reported a record opium harvest in the country for the fifth year running - worth up to 2.7 billion dollars annually. Over 100,000 Afghans are involved in the illegal trade. For many farmers, opium is the only way to make ends meet. DW correspondent Nick Connolly met some of them.
After years of earning protection money from the illegal drug trade, while fighting their insurgency against Afghanistan’s Western-backed government, the Taliban now say they want to put an end to the cultivation and use of what is - by most estimates - the country’s most valuable export.
This at a time of extreme stress for the country’s farmers. Drought, plummeting consumer demand and border closures have seen their incomes dwindle.
The one crop still performing for these farmers is the opium poppy. Here in Kandahar province it’s sold openly alongside the farmers’ other produce. The only thing the Taliban announcement changed, these farmers tell us, was to drive up opium prices, while the prices for other crops are collapsing.
With Afghanistan’s land borders for the most part shut to legal exports - entire harvests of pomegranates and other export crops have rotted or been sold for a pittance - while smuggling routes for opium and cannabis have stayed open.
Margins are tight even at the best of times.
But for now there’s little prospect of international aid returning in anything like the volumes seen under the previous government. Without it, Afghanistan’s economy looks set to suffer for the foreseeable future, opening the way for more poppies and more cannabis across these fields - and more drugs on the streets of Afghanistan’s neighbors.
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And, you thought we were in Afghanistan to spread democracy and human rights!
It was more so for geopolitical reasons. But the nation is ungovernable so it’s best left alone.
They are absolutely unteachable because of brain washes by hardcore ideologies which made them low mentalities.
@@kanglee8722 While I agree about the brainwashing, I wouldnt call Americans low mentality
@@user-ve7hn2dh8h : Who has highest mentality other then US ? You name it ! It certainly not Taliban or Pakistaní who were harboring and breeding Talibans!
Actually we moved in to disrupt Al-Qaeda's network in the nation. Building a demcoratic state was just an added bonus until it that government failed to secure itself.
This report should have been made during the many years of US occupation
if you read any real news, instead of just facebook and youtube recommendations you'd be well aware of this phenomenon.
opium has always been a huge part of afghan economy. the problem now is without international recognition, and all the legal trade routes are shut off, only the elicit market is left. THIS is what the report is about.
That was no secret for those who paid attention. Check old news
There were. Several reports about the drug crisis mentioned the taliban leaving as a reason for it because the old Taliban regime basically torched all the fields.
Look up "Operation River Dance"
@@jennifercook1875 Rofl. They did it once. For a couple of years. The year after there was a bumper crop that was lowering prices. Banning the growth resulted in a massive spike in the price instead. Which made the Taliban and the warlords engaged in the trade billions.
People should realise that the Taliban is little better than an organised crime syndicate. All the rest is just optics.
Everybody knows that for years, they should legalize cultivation in afganistan for medical reson there is no better painkiller than morphine.
I totally agree with you. Morphine and Opium should be legalized in Germany and only be sold in special drug stores where consumers have to be 21 years old at least. This would be win win situation for Aghanistan and European governments and will increase the taxes by a margin. This can also help with the current Covid situation.
Exactly easy stacks too I’d love to get my hands on some authentic afghani opium
Agree
Where was this doc in the 20 years of U.S. occupation
"Because I was high".
if you read any real news, instead of just facebook and youtube recommendations you'd be well aware of this phenomenon.
opium has always been a huge part of afghan economy. the problem now is without international recognition, and all the legal trade routes are shut off, only the elicit market is left. THIS is what the report is about.
Are you 10 years old? Check old news
Opium is Halal according to the Talibans version of sharia law.
They don’t care, read the 2018 Guardian article on this topic
@@morphkogan8627 If it does make money... the consumption may be forbidden by their religion but that does not mean there's no addicts nor they participate in narcotics trafficking. Tho Taliban now are tackling addicts, but well... they'll probably stay cultivating opium just for sake of profit
Religion as a business endeavor: most of the modern world has moved well past that.
@@johnhopkins6260
I wish. I am one of the least religious persons, but still plenty of religion in the western world. -Too much.
How about making cannabis a legal crop instead? That farmer could make a pretty penny exporting cannabis fed bio chickens... in a free trade environment (that doesn't exist there).
Poppy is extremely easy, cheap, and grows very well in Afghanistans climate and land. Legalizing cannabis and exporting it out of Afghanistan doesn’t seem very likely
@@morphkogan8627 Poppy is a perfectly legal crop, poppy seeds are used in food around the Eurasian region. It's just refining it into opium that's illegal (and lucrative).
Yeah create slums of drug addicits
Lol let's see how his grass fed chicken competes with the American meat industry in this "free trade environment"
Cannabis can replace Big Oil
Hemp grows wild in Afghanistan
International aid would have been there and was there if you would have not supported the taliban.
@@lu544 man.. Poverty forcing them to do this.. Not love for opium's
I am pretty sure they were forced to grow the opium, it is the most lucrative product.
And I am sure I would vote for the Taliban when there is a gun pointed on my head.
It's nice to see that some countries rely on the old fashioned agricultural way, to get enough money to create a decent life for their families
So u failed to understand the point drug business will ruin local economy
It's obviously a joke.
Funny.
I like the idea like this
Millions of dollars worth drugs seized by NCB and police in India on Gujarat port . This drug business is bigger than we think .
Legalize cannabis and maybe just maybe you'll start getting to the actual criminals selling the real hard drugs like cocaine and opium and not just a fun drug that doesn't even kill by overdose like weed
Not anymore. It was all burned.... All of it.
If ever there was a time for some kind of psychoactive substance, it’s NOW!
The Afghan rural supported Taliban to come to power by offering refuge and even taking up arms against US forces. Now they want international aid after Taliban came to power.
I think it's a little more complicated than that but that's a fair point.
And 90% of consumers are in America 🇺🇸
Could you give us a source for that information?
@@drmodestoesq take it to Malawi and see how much money will you get out of it. But in usa it’s in high demand
No. It is Asia.
Stop spreading bs please
@@user-ve7hn2dh8h it is what it is mate it is sold in usd for big $$
It is not possible to legally import opium from Afghanistan for the purpose of medicine. Big legal opium producers like Australia, france and Spain are able to produce opium much more efficient. Much more yield per hectare with less hands.
In 2013 the cost to make 1kg of morphine in Afghanistan was $660 while in Australia it cost $70 to make 1kg of morphine. That why it don't make any sense that Afghanistan produces 85% of the global production, while it is 10 times more expensive and can only be imported illegally.
So maybe the 85% is based on the total opium trade in $.
They don't produce the most they are just able to illegaly get the most money out of it.
It costs more in Afghanistan because of the legal risk and the fact that it’s harvested the old way like in India, cutting the opium pod, not the modern method used in Australia, Spain, France, UK where the plants are left to dry and then the straw is harvested and the opiates extracted chemically.
Funny how we invaded Afghanistan then had a opioid epidemic shortly after in America….
The USA planted the poppy seeds there in the 60s and now America got an opioid crisis. I call this Karma
People didnt get hooked on heroin before being prescribed oxycontin or vicodin. International opiate trade has nothing to do with the opIOID(!)
crisis
Oxycontin showed up in 1998
Nothing wrong with cannibis
It's actually more useful than most crops
Need the crops for when you get the munchies.
I really dont know the level education u have
@@xavierzacheriah6038 Clearly it’s significantly higher than yours.
@@deltanovember1672 nah.. Brother i am a nurse so i have better education and practical knowledge about that...
@@xavierzacheriah6038 wait, youre a nurse and thats why you know about cannabis? Cannabis is the oldest agriculturally used plant in history of mankind. Its one of the fastest growing fibrous plant in the world. Its also a so called bioaccumulator that can clean the soil from toxic substances like led or mercury. And on top of that, cannabis has tons of medical utilities,which you, as a nurse,really should know about...oh well turns out your education didnt enable you to talk about cannabis
This shows the lack of real development under US occupation in the past 20 years. They just build some shiny new schools and hospitals in Kabul so the international press and international organizations would have something nice to report on back home while the rural areas were largely ignored
It takes everyone to help and continue to he
if Afghanistan sells so much opioids to world society, there is the question for boarder's patrols of neighbored countries, doesn't that? there is absolutely clear that neighbored countries interested with traffic!
Same could be said with Mexico and United States
Desperate situation, Desperate measure
I'd like to know what is the opinion of reporters about discussed opium issue like them
- How is the UN helping farmers in Afghanistan?
- We are telling them that they should think of something else.
It`s basically what she said.
did the new government take any step to reduce drug cultivation? Or replace it with other crops?
Crops? Which crops get you 50$ a kilo without fertilizers and machinery?
anyway, one of the points I'd like to make is that the previous government obviously did not do enough (if anything) to reduce opium or weed cultivation and support more helpful cultures
(helpful and healthy for the Afghan society as a whole, I mean)
@@sergeyt5703 I heard it's more like 1000 dollars a kilo. But scraping that tiny amount of opium off the poppy bulbs is very labour intensive.
A lot of that footage used was of harvesting corn...
Who’re are the most consumers of opium around the world??
Hard to say since most countries consider this to be sensitive data, in the last wide survey (which was done in 2008), the UNODC found Iran to be the largest consumer of opium, both as narcotic and pain killer since they didn't have access to painkillers (bcs sanction ofc). Being near Afghanistan didn't help, though.
@@jellybr3ak I love the UN. They just keep on helping
the UN is so out of touch......... this woman is a good example
What did she say that was wrong? Imagine painting the UN with such a generilzation, its a massive, diverse and complex institution that does a lot of great things for humanity. Of course its flawed in many ways, overall it is a big positive.
Wow… didn’t know the Opium War shifted from Hong Kong to Afghanistan.
good for them
Why they dont plant food
Poppy is extremely easy, cheap, and grows very well in Afghan climate and land.
no shiet sherlock, it has been the case fro the past 300 years
Considering China's history with opiates, I am shocked by their support of the Taliban.
They don’t want the US next door.
don't play audio over interviews!
This is law of supply and demand. If you guys stop buying heroin, no one would sell it. Simple.
They only changes the importir(mybadimeanexportir) before the US now the locals 😂
Ban music, promote opium trade
For weapons for terrorist
Hum yeah? What else are people gonna use to help with their chronic pain?
I have horrifying chronic pain after multiple failed surgeries by crooked doctors. I honestly don't know what I would do if opium didn't exist.
The EU should visit and negotiate terms with taiban to allow them to bring technology to work in agricultural projects. The Dutch are very progressive in this matter, they can grow flowers, vegetables and fruits that can be sold at European markets.
Where does all the cannabis go? I can't get any! :D
Are you in North Korea?
@@drmodestoesq He he he, no, I just have no contacts and never asked But I like complaining. 😃
Come to Afghanistan bro
Ángela looks she is really into drugs
lol...... yep, prob. just smoked a fatty
big pharma needs it !!
a nice n funny US Muppet Show😂🤣😂
Thats why they went.
The NATO has sanctioned on Afghanistan. The farmers could not sell 🌽 , tomato and crops to foreign countries therefore they are being forced to plant the opium. Ms Angela of UN wanted to say the why at 5:33. But DW quickly interrupted her of giving the reason. DW please help Afgan people and eventually help
Europe too. Who taught them to plant opium for the last 20 years ? Be fair
China
Lol, Afgan don't grow enough food needed for their own population, what makes you think they can export their crop.
@@vamsikrishna9501 Talibanposting, probably
Yet Cannibis is legal in many US states. Why can we not buy their HAsh here in the USA?
US backed UN anti-drug laws.
Not very halal of them.
Just like Mohammad did, they change and manipulate to suit their own agenda.
Islam is much more flexible than I thought.
Make it legal
Tell us NEWS. This isn't news
Funny was just thinking about this fact today !…
the true currency that buys heroin is the human soul of the addict sooo saaad
Afghanistan Minerals say mala maal hey jubkeh Afghani opium poppy seeds ki kasht per luggay hein.
Iss nushay nay inhein tubah Ker rakha hey.
Oh yeah... Give them more aid 🙄🙄. The Afghan opium trade has been enabled by America and its allies since the 80s.
so, as the narrator says :@ 3:30 international aid will not be as much as it was during the previous government. then that aid was never for Afghani people because helping people knows no politics...... This documentary is not neutral.
Dera yam 🤗
There's something in the Afghanistan soil
manufacture of meth from a wild plant is really big in afghanistan too.....ephreda rich plants to meth amphetamine is hudge.there are hudge markets that just trade /supply this industry.
canabis is the healing of the nation.
usanatozio still need it
Yeah, the old agricultural way is bad for water and food
Don't worry, we have a plan for families to lead better lives
Food is more important
Water too
But we don't do them, just exports
You can't eat principles. But you can eat what money buys you when your land is too dry for regular crops.
And i wonder who's buying it, creating a market for it? Hmm....
What do you mean,whos buying it?
international and then local drug traders
I think it also makes its way into medical grade opiates too, presumably via an intermediate
The point being that its us in the west who are taking the opiates, ergo buying them
@@charlottemarceau8062 nope youre talking about opiates here. There are no or very little opiates in opioides to my knowledge. Opiodes are synthetic
You start with poppy to produce opiates. Morphine, dimorphine. Pretty sure opiodes are the same..
Producen cannabis y consumen cigarrillos, que tontos. Los que consumen cannabis viven más y son más saludables.
Americans still left behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.
I tried to beat my best friend today 😭 . I was very drunk. 😭
Closed the economy with all boss world
Do what you want with your body..
thus thanks to the British Empire
Wow
Nepal should also do ganja and opium farming again.
Poppy seed
Drugs and Terrorism is halal according to Afghanistan
Я за авгонистан. За канабис. Но. Против. Мака. Опиум
now we know what the u.s.a was doin in there.
they have this only option available to feed rheir starving children........ and by the way west iz the largest consumer of this poppy and canabis..
Oh I thought it's haram. Well thats Religion for you guys.
Taliban doing well work
No really?? what a surprise.. and I thought it would be Aero/space or Medical technology 😂The Only export that country has ever had for ever is dope
Afghanistan has lots of minerals. sell them instead
No one is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in developing a mine in Afghanistan. The place is too unstable.
The Chinese were there for twenty years under the corrupt democracy. They didn't develop any of the leases they had.
В Германии будет усатый призидент
yes
under ciamossad management!
The Taliban are actually patriotic
Cheers from west Africa
🦅
I wonder if you work for a UN agency is your check signed by the Rockefeller Foundation?
🇺🇸
Lol...or how to say, "Im brainwashed" without using words
Haram!
Hmmm... I smell a heaven in Afghanistan 😍
That's why taliban there, it's their obligation to deliver the small pieces of heaven around the world 😂
Wow opium growing and trading is halal? Islam there surely is flexible with its teachings 😂
So you missed the part where the Taliban persecute consumers and dealers, which was pretty much the whole segment..
are you on opium right now?
Yeah also the farmer stating that its not right but he has no other choice at the moment
pashtuns need to fight for real freedom - freedom of thought - not be slaves to this political ideology .no freedom of religion. forced to practice - apostasy is punished by death in these countries.
its their choice,my son
Excuse me Sir/Madam
Are you saved?
If you died tonight are you going to heaven?
Jesus loves you
Watch rumble stew Peters tv
It's a free country don't try to make a property of u.s.a
That's why all other countries need to stop helping those countries.
I thought they went to Afghanistan to "free" their people from terrorism. I thought Germany was the smartest people in the EU.
Thanks Obiden! Let’s go Brandon!
Hey dimwit, every single of trumps 4 years in office was a record breaking year in Afghani opium production. It was even mentioned in the video and the video is just a couple of minutes long. Where are all those Americans coming from that seem to suffer from serious attention deficit when they consume media
Biden got America out of that shitshow of a forever war. Keep watching Fox, you neo-con pinhead.
Islam seems to breed the worst kind of hypocrisy.
@You Tube good point, after watching netflix Narcos: mexico no one seems to question why usa is the biggest drug addict in the world or its socio-economic issues or its society issues
i am sorry American people has a monopoly on hypocrisy
Let’s go Brandon!
The hot phrase used only by neo-fascist trumpettes.
@@nedludd7622 😂
Who’s Brandon?
@@deltanovember1672 Look it up.
@@nedludd7622 look up what? Brandon? How does this play out in your head?