KABUL: Afghan police have destroyed 60 acres of poppy farms in the northern Balkh province, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Wednesday.
“The counter-narcotics police in the campaign against illicit drugs have destroyed 60 acres of poppy farms and hashish in Chamtal, Charbolak, Shortepa and Balkh districts of Balkh province since beginning this year,” Waziri told reporters.
Police have destroyed 2,200 acres of poppy farms in the province over the past year, the official said.
In the fight against illicit crops, police have also destroyed 900 acres of poppy farms in the northern Badakhshan province over the past couple of weeks.
In the campaign against illicit drugs in eastern Kapisa province, Afghan police smashed 160 hectares of poppy farms last week.
Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Afghan caretaker administration, in a decree issued in April last year, banned the cultivation of illegal crops, including poppy, and drug processing and trafficking.
