[Hardraade]

oh. 2004, breaking all records.
2007, another record crop.
2008, bumper crop.
2011, Bumper crop (60% increase).

Someone is collecting their data *after* harvest, in the lean couple of months :).

You will, after each bumber crop, see one or two big captures - to show the govt is up on the task. Then everyone can be happily drugged out of their skull for the enxt year.

[Puckster]

Well, you'll have to read all of my posts....we're talking about the 2012 harvest which, locally at least, was a bust, something I think is implied very well taking in the full context of my posts (plural).

Monies, from the meager poppy crop, for the Taliban for HME supplies has made IED’s very valuable here, so much so that they'll risk exposure recouping a compromised emplacement to their own decimation.

[Uncle Chip]

You will, after each bumber crop, see one or two big captures - to show the govt is up on the task.

Yeh -- its task of providing price support for its main export by reducing supply to drive up the price.