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[Afghanistan] Opium harvest in a poppy field in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, 2003.
The cultivation of opium has largely increased during the last decade: according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in 2004 poppies were grown on 1,300 km², abo
Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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