Posted on 13/05/08
War takes time out for opium windfall
NEAR BAZAR-E-PANJWAI and KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- The swollen green poppy bulbs are being plucked from the fields as the annual spring harvest is under way in Afghanistan's volatile and dangerous Panjwai district."Fifteen days," an Afghan farmer told a Canadian soldier yesterday, when asked about how long he expected it will take to clear his field. As the farmer talked, he carefully cut open a bulb the size of a walnut and scooped out the oozing sap.
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