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May 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The UNODC added on Monday that five percent of the 34 million population of the war-torn country are involved in the cultivation of drug-related crops and plants.
“With more than 1 million drugs users and 5 percent of the population involved in the cultivation of drugs, Afghanistan continues to pay [an] extremely high cost for the illicit drug problem in the country,” UNODC Executive Director Yuri Fedetov told reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul.
The UN official said that the UNODC will be spending USD 117 million over the next three years on its counternarcotics program in Afghanistan, the world’s largest supplier of drugs.
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has been on the rise since the US-led war began in 2001.
According to reports, between 2001 and 2011, annual opium production rose from 185 tons to 5,800 tons. Last year alone, it increased by 61 percent.
Official statistics indicate that the largest amounts of illicit drugs are produced in five Afghan provinces, namely Badghis, Farah, Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan, which are also the most insecure regions of the country.
According to the World Bank, opium cultivation and trade account for 16 percent of Afghanistan’s total gross domestic product (GDP).
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