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Burma, Afghanistan, Laos, Pakistan, Thailand, Mexico, Columbia, and India, primarily.
Afghanistan is the opium exporter of the world. They grow and farm large quantities of poppy in order to achieve this. Much to the chagrin of Europe, Afghanistan continues to export huge amounts of opium, even after the EU has told them to stop.
The cultivation of opium poppy has significantly supported the Taliban financially. Afghanistan is one of the world's largest producers of opium, and the Taliban has historically taxed and controlled the opium trade, using the proceeds to fund their operations. This illicit trade has provided a substantial source of revenue for the group, especially in the absence of formal economic structures.
Afghanistan has the world's only official Opium production and arguably no other country on earth has such a huge drug problem as Afghanistan.
Papaver somniferum is hardly endangered! The world's pharmaceutical industry depends on the raw opium from this plant for manufacturing the plethora of narcotic drugs widely available throughout the world. And I suppose a quick survey of Afghanistan will show you that the plant is thriving in this and other parts of the world that harvest opium for illicit conversion into heroin. So the short answer is No, "Opium Poppy" (Papaver Somniferum) is not endangered what-so-ever in the least.
It's Afghanistan, Coz it produces more than 96% of the world's heroin, more than 92% of the world's opium and more than 80% of world's cannabis (weed & hash)
Some common plants found in Afghanistan include poppies, pomegranates, almonds, apricots, mulberries, pistachios, grapes, and figs. Afghanistan's diverse climate and topography support a wide range of plant species.
They produce Heroin, pomegranates, grapes, apricots, apples and peaches. These are just some of the things they produce in Afghanistan.
Traffic is heavy worldwide, with the biggest producer being Afghanistan. According to a U.N. sponsored survey, as of 2004, Afghanistan accounted for production of 87 percent of the world's heroin. The cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reached its peak in 1999, when 225,000 acres - 350 square miles - of poppies were sown. The following year the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, a move which cut production by 94 per cent. By 2001 only 30 square miles of land were in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles, with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more. Opium production in that country has increased rapidly since, reaching an all-time high in 2006.
Heroin addiction! The ancient Aryans were gaga over haoma (soma), opium juice! Where did they get it? Afghanistan , of course! More poppies grow there than anywhere else in the world.