Earnings for opium farmer in Afghanistan

Posted on April 27, 2008
Filed Under Asia, global drug trade |

A worker harvesting opium in Afghanistan is able to earn $12 a day, compared to $2 a day for harvesting wheat. Reporter Elizabeth Rubin, writing for the New York Times Magazine, reported that certain schools in Afghanistan are closed in part “because teachers and students were busy harvesting the crop”.

Source:  Elizabeth Rubin, “In the Land of the Taliban,” New York Times Magazine, October 22, 2006.

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