USAID Brags About Helping Farmer Starting Pomegranate Orchard, Shows Photo Of Him In Poppy Field

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The problem, of course, is the photo shows a farmer hard at work in a poppy field, rather than a pomegranate orchard, a fact Twitter users were all too eager to note.

.....Despite the efforts of USAID and other agencies that spent $8.5 billion to eradicate narcotics, Afghanistan broke records for opium production in 2016.

Poppy production increased by 43 percent in 2016, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) latest Quarterly Report to Congress published Monday.
USAID Brags About Helping Farmer Starting Pomegranate Orchard, Shows Photo Of Him In Poppy Field

That's almost funny.
 

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