Afghanistan Drug Networks

By around 1990, in southwestern Afghanistan, most farmers sold their opium gum produce immediately after harvest to traders or agents of processors. Some: poorer fanners short-sell their standing crops for 60 to 70 percent of their postharvest value. Many fanners, particularly those from Qandahar and Helmand, took their produce to Sanguin, in Helmand, which is the largest opium market in southwestern Afghanistan. Still others had their own processing arrangements or sell their opium directly to processors who in most cases are located near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Balochistan. Farmers in Nangafiar and eastern Afghanistan sold their product under similar arrangements. The processing was formerly done inside the Khyber Agency but is now done inc~asinglyin Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan Drug Networks