Poppy Power

aExcluding poppy plants and seeds.

Of these, 54 relate directly to poppy crop reduction.

Poppy cultivators who willingly submitted poppy seed to the authorities were given support for alternative cash crops under the New Destiny Project launched in April 2002.

Many farmers are waiting for a sustainable alternative to poppy crops.

Figure II. Opium poppy cultivation, estimated by country, 1994 and 1995

The production of opium poppy has more than tripled since 1985.

Preliminary results of the 1997 opium poppy survey carried out by the Government of Pakistan indicate that an area of 345 hectares was under opium poppy cultivation in 1997.

Thanks to its Anti Narcotics Force, Pakistan was a poppy free country.

The eradication of poppy fields should be seen in this larger context.

The Special Rapporteur welcomes the steady and remarkable reduction in opium poppy cultivation.

During 1995, UNDCP continued to monitor illicit cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan.

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Apart from opium poppy cultivation, economic activity has come almost to a standstill.

Opium poppy cultivation will remain subject to eradication, and ineligible for alternative development.

According to provisional figures from a government survey on the poppy crop in the Dir district and other poppy growing areas of the North West Frontier Province, the level of opium poppy cultivation in the growing season 1995 96 decreased by about 75 per cent compared with that in the growing season 1994 95.

Some speakers expressed concern about the increased level of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Some speakers expressed concern about the increased level of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Considerably more assistance needs to reach farmers directly as a disincentive for poppy cultivation.

Putting pressure on the poppy farmers in Afghanistan alone will not solve the problem.

In 1995, the estimated total area under illicit poppy cultivation was approximately 258,000 hectares.

The largest ever eradication campaign for opium poppy in the Sinai in the spring of 1996 was reported to have resulted in the destruction of more than 3.6 billion poppy plants.Egypt, Anti Narcotics General Administration, 1996.

Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy, opium and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan is one of the two largest producers of illicit opium poppy in the world.

Objective to contribute to the elimination of poppy cultivation in the Dir district in Pakistan in support of the Government s phased programme of enforced poppy eradication, applying to the project an alternative development approach involving community participation.

It is based upon a UNDCP commitment to fund development activities in specific poppy growing areas in exchange for the Taliban apos s agreement (a) not to permit cultivation of opium poppy into new areas (b) to allow UNDCP to survey the opium poppy crop and (c) to take action against trafficking of illicit drugs and for the destruction of illicit laboratories.

We also endorse the efforts made by the Government of Afghanistan and the international community to end poppy cultivation, to build relevant judicial and police capacity and to provide sustainable alternative livelihoods for those engaged in poppy cultivation.

They also agreed to destroy opium poppy grown in areas outside those recorded in the 1997 poppy survey so as to stop the balloon effect from occurring, and to seize and destroy drugs, processing chemicals and heroin laboratories.

In Afghanistan, activities, including concrete support to communities engaged in reducing poppy cultivation, will be operational.

In 1996, some cash crops, particularly onions, generated considerably more income to farmers than opium poppy.

The former foresees poppy being eliminated by the year 2001, the latter by the year 2000.

In recent years, Egypt has been affected by a rise in the cultivation of opium poppy in the region of south Sinai, where approximately 30 tonnes of opium poppy were seized and destroyed by the Egyptian authorities in 1996.

The latter met with resistance from poppy growers in some areas, resulting in casualties on both sides.

Reference was made to the annual surveys conducted by UNODC of opium poppy and coca bush cultivation.

The predominant economic activity is agriculture, with a very large portion of the territory under opium poppy.

In 1998, the overall area under opium poppy cultivation increased by 9 per cent to 63,674 hectares.

Splendid. It's made from poppy seeds. Two cups of this and you're stoned out of your mind.

According to the UNODC World Drug Report, opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar had declined by 73 per cent between 1996 and 2004, while the United States Government reported that poppy cultivation in Myanmar had declined by 34 per cent in 2003 2004 alone.

It was emphasized that the sustainability of such eradication efforts should be ensured and that particular efforts were needed to alleviate the poverty of former opium poppy growers, in particular during the transitional period, after they had given up opium poppy cultivation.

Such programmes or plans covered cannabis in 32 States, opium poppy in 19 and coca bush in 7.

The global hectarage devoted to the illicit cultivation of opium poppy expanded to about 280,000 hectares by 1996.

Cultivation of poppy for household purposes is a tradition in the region and the ban on illicit poppy cultivation is generally not strictly enforced, although certain States have reported eradication measures, especially Hungary, which has experienced an increase in illicit cultivation in recent years.

According to the annual UNDCP Afghanistan opium poppy survey conducted during the 1995 96 growing season, the area under opium poppy cultivation was estimated to be in the range of 55,000 58,000 hectares, with an estimated corresponding yield of 2,200 2,300 tonnes of opium.

Again and again, I hear of poppy farmers who sell their daughters to repay their debts to drug traffickers.