Afghan farmers pushed to opium farming to make a living

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When I was in Koknar, I thought it would be 5000 or 6000 a day.
But now I am in the economy of cotton and wheat,
which is getting weak, and if I work hard,
I will earn 3000 or 1500 a day.
What else can you do?
The struggle between Nasheed, Tok
and Pawla is an important responsibility
of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The consumption of Koknar
is not so difficult,
but the consumption of cotton is very high.
Cotton has a lot of water.
Now there are around 300 men working in the fields.
In the past, there used to be around 1,500
to 1,600 men working in the fields.
Even if you eat, you won't get fat.
And you won't get fat by eating.
The economy is poor.
Neither by the de facto authorities
nor by the international community,
which is another reason why we are in the situation we're in today,
that is to say that farmers don't have any other choice
than to go back to puppy cultivation again.
