FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have destroyed poppy farms covering 1,419 acres of land in north Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, a local official said late Thursday.
In a series of operations, 1,419 acres of poppy farms were destroyed in the province's Argo and Kishim districts, said Ihsanullah Kamgar, the provincial police spokesperson, adding that police will not allow anyone to cultivate illegal crops.
Police have wiped out over 30,000 acres of poppy farms in Badakhshan over the past three months.
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. ■
