According to an Article in The New York Times, Afghanistan has produced rocord levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year. This is likely to spark a renewed debate about the United States $600 million counternarcotics program in Afghanistan. Opium is so rampant in the south of Afghanistan that a complete eradication will never be accomplished. Even local farmers who grow legal crops have some involvement in the opium trade. Some of them actually grow the opium to increase their finances or get a cut of the trade from the traffickers they protect. All of this opium growth is wreaking havoc on the Afghany economy. If things continue then common farmers will not be able to make a living at all. U.S. and Brittish Governments are doing the best they can to fix this influx of opium in South Afghanistan. Some efforts have been lucrative but they feel that they have a long battle ahead of them. Only time will tell if this problem can ever be resolved.
If this continues then all farms in that area will be completely dependent on the people who control the opium. This dependency will eventually lead to the downfall of the farmers economy as well as their way of living. Unfortunately there is not much that can be done so who knows how much longer this will continue.
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