While Afghanistan has long been a major producer of opium, the Taliban in 2001 eradicated three-quarters of the world’s crop of opium poppies in one season. In that year, production plummeted from 3,300 metric tons to 200 metric tons.
In 2002, however, the year after the U.S invasion, poppy production shot up to 3,400 tons. By 2007, production had skyrocketed to an all-time high of 7,400 tons. In 2014, annual cultivation reached 225,000 hectares, the highest level in Afghanistan’s history, according to published reports.
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