A Fateful Harvest -- part 2 - The rise of the poppy problem

Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business, half of which came from the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest. The rise of the poppy problem: War, destruction of a rural economy, immigration, and few alternative livelihoods afghan afghanistan democracy taliban corruption illegal drug trade antonio maria costa crop farmers criminals extremists pakistan opium poppy trafficker illegal narcotics heroin export cultivation insurgency eradication helmond criminals united nations debt king zahir shah soviet union roseanne klass russian kafaiyatullah mujahadin socialism rural economy farmland survival income-generating military muslim kirk mullah omar democracy karzai trafficking vanda felbab-brown christina orguz narco-state poppies iran smuggling criminal counter-narcotics thomas schweich kandahar nato zabul province drugs drug five pillar plan interdiction uruzgan tirin kot mohammad daoud adam holloway pomegranate profitable sustainable nangarhar agricultural shinwari growers irrigation dur jan poverty dealer fields badahkshan anti-narcotics police processing lab morphine refining kabul kamair doug wankel druglord dea haji baz mohmmad boyd johnson corrupt parliament shukria barakzai government warlords tribal addict unemployment balkh unodc