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Corruption in Gulistan District, Farah Province
Due to the drought I dug one tubewell. Last year (2005) I cultivated eight jeribs of poppy. The local authorities came to destroy my crop. They said they would destroy it unless I gave them some money. I gave them Afs 20,000 (US$ 400) and they left my crop alone.
До 2000 года Талибан поощрял производство опия и издал исламский эдикт призывавший крестьян увеличить опийные посадки; при этом Талибан облагал доход от выращивания опиума 20%-м налогом.
In Achin in 2000, a respondent had taken a loan for the
equivalent of US$ 448 as an advance payment on five kg of
opium. As the respondent did not pay the opium he owed at
the time of harvest due to the Taliban ban, this debt was
converted into cash in late 2001 at the prevailing price of
US$ 480 per kg, resulting in a total debt of US$ 2,400. In
preparation for the 2001/2002 harvest season this cash debt
was then reconverted into opium at the salaam price of
US$160 per kg resulting in a debt of 15 kg of opium to be
paid at harvest time. Once again the respondent failed to
repay, this time due to drought. His debt was once again
converted into cash at the prevailing price of opium of US$
320 per kg in late 2002. Given that he now owed 15 kg of
opium his total debt had increased to the equivalent of US$
4,800 in cash. In January 2003, this unpaid debt was once
again converted into opium at the salaam price of around
US$96 resulting in a debt of 50 kg of opium. The respondent
did not have sufficient land to produce this much opium
even if it had been well irrigated. Finally the jirga intervened
and decided that the respondent would give his 8-
year-old daughter as payment. This was duly done.