FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have smashed poppy farms covering 800 acres of land in north Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, a statement of the provincial police office said on Friday.
In a series of operations, 800 acres of poppy farms have been destroyed, the statement said, adding that police will not allow anyone to cultivate illegal crops.
The Afghan caretaker government has banned poppy cultivation, processing of drugs and drug trafficking to eliminate the menace of drugs from the once poppy-growing country.
The opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had dropped by an estimated 95 percent since the country's caretaker government imposed a drug ban in April 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said last year. ■
