NA Afghanistan's major Opium producer - UN

The Northern Alliance battling the Taliban has emerged as Afghanistan’s major opium producer because their rivals, who control most of the country, appear to be enforcing their ban on growing the poppy, US officials revealed today

Mohammad Amirkhizi, senior policy adviser at the Vienna-based UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, said the Northern Alliance harvested about 150 tons of the opium poppy this year.