In Reversal, Poppy Production Expanding in Afghanistan, U.N. Says - nytimes

KABUL, Afghanistan — Driven by soaring opium prices, farmers are expected to plant poppies at a sharply higher rate in parts of Afghanistan that were previously poppy free, the United Nations said Monday in its annual winter survey of poppy cultivation patterns in this country, the world’s leading opium purveyor. -- In Reversal, Poppy Production Expanding in Afghanistan, U.N. Says