[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.

[Puckster]

There are criminal warlords that control most of the poppy harvest and with the Taliban’s help a cut of the profit is realized for their terroist efforts.

A 10% harvest doesn’t make up the difference of price drive up.

In my area, this 10% of normal harvest has made the Taliban’s efforts more costly.