Blue Girl at ProctoringCongress finds that our adventure in Mesopotamia has another interesting resemblance to the blunder in Afghanistan: growing poppies for the heroin market!
The first fields, underwritten by Afghani smugglers who supplied the lucrative markets in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, were discovered less than a year ago near Diwaniya in the south, but the practice has now spread to the lush orchards of Diyala, north of Baghdad. A local agricultural engineer identified as M S al-Azawi said that the local farmers received no government support, and turned to opium production as an effort to offset high production costs and low sale prices.
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