Afghanistan at Odds With U.S. on Plan to Curb Opium

``We think it's better to put more resources on preventing cultivation because once it's cultivated, it's too late,'' Said Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview yesterday. ``You eradicate it, you lose the support of the people.'' --- Jawad stressed that rather than ``punishing extensively the farmers, we have to go after traffickers.''