According to the United Nations Drugs and Anti -Office Office (UNODC), last year one kilogram of opium was worth $ 750, which was $ 75 just three years ago. Because of this, opium vendors were compensated for total production and loss in opium fields.
The UN agency said during special emphasis that after the opium ban in Afghanistan, its smuggling has decreased due to the decline in production. “The seizure of heroin and opium since 2021 has declined by about 50 percent.”
A opium is a naturally founded substance that is used in heroin production. It is more powerful, synthetic drug. The three major world sources of illegal opium are Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.
UNODC says that due to high prices, “still huge profit, whose main benefits are getting high-level traders and exporters in organized crime groups.”
Reduced store
The UN agency estimates that the total reserves of opium were 9,220 tonnes by the end of 2022, which is enough to meet the demand for opium in Afghanistan by 20227.
UNODC executive director Gada Volly said, “There is a boom at the price of opium and enough reserves, meaning that drug trafficking in Afghanistan remains a very profitable illegal trade.”
“Profit is being transferred to an international organized crime group, which is destabilizing Afghanistan, the region and beyond it,” he said.
Before the collapse of opium cultivation, Afghanistan’s reserves were estimated to be between $ 1.6 billion to $ 1.5 billion, which was about 20 to 20 percent of the country’s economy in 2021.
UNODC said that it would help some common Afghan people to face serious economic problems since the Taliban returned.
Farmers fight
Nevertheless, the percent of the opium reserves in 2022 can be in the hands of big businessmen and exporters, and only 5 percent of the farmers are likely to have “small to minor”.
According to the UNODC, “most farmers who used to cultivate opium earlier are now facing serious financial difficulties.”
According to the UN agency, there is an immediate requirement of permanent economic alternatives, especially in terms of today’s high opium values to return to their cultivation to the country’s opium farmers.
The company has also warned that an opiate deficit can attract buyers and sellers, which are probably more harmful than heroin. For example, fentanel or other synthetic drugs.