strollingbones
Diamond Member
The U.S. and British governments plan to spend millions of dollars over the next two months to try to persuade Afghan farmers not to plant opium poppy, by far the country's most profitable cash crop and a major source of Taliban funding and official corruption.
By selling wheat seeds and fruit saplings to farmers at token prices, offering cheap credit, and paying poppy-farm laborers to work on roads and irrigation ditches, U.S. and British officials hope to provide alternatives before the planting season begins in early October. Many poppy farmers survive Afghanistan's harsh winters on loans advanced by drug traffickers and their associates, repaid with the spring harvest.
U.S. and Britain again target Afghan poppies
lets see....wehat and fruit saplings are a lot of work...poppy growing...not so much...drug dealers are gonna stay there...americans not so much....why work on roads and ditches when you can grow poppies ...who thinks this shit up?
By selling wheat seeds and fruit saplings to farmers at token prices, offering cheap credit, and paying poppy-farm laborers to work on roads and irrigation ditches, U.S. and British officials hope to provide alternatives before the planting season begins in early October. Many poppy farmers survive Afghanistan's harsh winters on loans advanced by drug traffickers and their associates, repaid with the spring harvest.
U.S. and Britain again target Afghan poppies
lets see....wehat and fruit saplings are a lot of work...poppy growing...not so much...drug dealers are gonna stay there...americans not so much....why work on roads and ditches when you can grow poppies ...who thinks this shit up?