NEW DELHI -- Afghanistan's opium poppy farmers resumed cultivating the crop this month with apparent impunity, despite assurances from the Taliban that the country will not become a hotbed for the illegal drug trade.
"We've started planting poppy seeds for this year," said a farmer in the southern province of Helmand. "We're also growing wheat and corn, but poppies sell at a high price."
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