What is Afghanistan's cash crop? The Afghan population has nothing to grow, no water to irrigage any food crops, so they grow opium that needs almost no water. Their whole life is built around the few dollars they get from this crop.Senior US military and civilian officials believe the Taliban cannot be defeated and good government in Afghanistan cannot be established without cutting off the money generated by Afghanistan’s opium industry, says a US Senate report released on Tuesday.
The report notes that the illegal Afghan drug industry supplies more than 90 per cent of the world’s heroin and generates an estimated $3 billion a year in profits. As I flew over I thought to myself what is growing in the below? What are your thoughts? Maybe the Afghan population could raise crawfish? I would really like a bowl of crawfish etouffee. Oh, yes they would need water to do it!
