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Taliban officials eradicate a poppy field on Sunday in Washir, a district of Helmand province in Afghanistan. The country's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty.

Afghanistan dominates global opium production. The Taliban is shutting that down

After the group retook power in the country in 2021, it banned poppy cultivation. Now it's tearing the plants out, field by field. But farmers and workers worry there's no money in other crops.

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  • The Associated Press