“Opium prices then rose sharply: from around $60–75 a kilogram before the Taliban takeover to roughly $1,000–1,035 a kilogram by December 2023, according to Mansfield's field pricing data, almost a fi…”
“Based on satellite mapping of landholding sizes and yields in the former desert areas of southern and southwestern Afghanistan, reports indicate that farmers there alone could have accumulated an opi…”
