Afghan farmers struggle after poppy ban

AFP English

The Taliban's decree banning poppy production in Afghanistan, the world's top poppy producing country, has caused a sharp drop in harvests and hit growers hard as they struggle to make ends meet after switching to less profitable crops.

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00:00We don't have a problem with the pigs.

00:07Our problem is that we don't have enough animals to feed our children.

00:14We don't have enough animals to feed our children.

00:19We don't have enough animals to feed our children.

00:25We don't have a problem with the pigs.

00:29It's just that we don't have enough animals for a living.

00:33It's just that we don't have enough animals for a living.

00:35If the people come and ask us to come back, we would rather die than come back.

00:39If the people come and ask us to come back, we would rather die than come back.

00:55We, the people of Afghanistan, say that there is a lot of work to be done, a lot of work

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01:12We used to eat meat three or four days a week, now we eat it once a month.

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