[mriko]

Greetings & Love everyone !

Oh my, these are terrible news i read this morning. Some nasty fungus is attacking the Afghan poppy crop, at large scale. Fact is that this thing (if Fusarium o. it is, which I am 99.99%sure of) doesn't attack only poppies, but also coca or cannabis. No coca there, but lots of our beloved green.
Could that be a man-made attack ? DEA uses it a lot in South America and this could be the latest move in getting the farmers to replace their fields of dope with monsanto seeds (among other things...).

Great danger my friends, cherish you pure afghan seeds and if you know anyone who's serving overthere, make them send you beans ! Just make sure they are labelled with precise origin.

Fungus hits Afghan opium poppies

A serious disease is affecting opium poppies in Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said.

Mr Costa told the BBC that this year's opium production could be reduced by a quarter, compared with last year.

He said the disease - a fungus - is thought to have infected about half of the country's poppy crop. Afghanistan produces 92% of the world's opium.

Mr Costa said opium prices had gone up by around 50% in the region.

That could have an impact on revenues for insurgent groups like the Taliban which have large stockpiles of opium, he added.

The fungus attacks the root of the plant, climbs up the stem and makes the opium capsule wither away.

It was affecting poppies in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, the heartland of opium cultivation and the insurgency in Afghanistan, he said.

Nato 'blamed'

Some local farmers believe Nato troops are responsible for the outbreak, but Mr Costa denied that this was the case.

"I don't see any reasons to believe something of that sort," he said. "Opium plants have been affected in Afghanistan on a periodic basis."

Mr Costa also said this was an opportunity for the international community to bring in support to try to persuade farmers to turn away from planting opium.

He said the amount of opium produced by one hectare (2.47 acres) had almost doubled to 56kg (123lb) in the five years to 2009.

"Nature really played in favour of the opium economy; this year, we see the opposite situation," he added.

Mr Costa said that farmers now grew opium poppies in only five or six Afghan provinces, as opposed to all 34 five years ago.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8679203.stm

Irie !

Mriko, thanks for posting!!

I'm sure of it that this is man made, bloody bastards.
There was never a Fusarium attack before and now suddenly.There are happening some nasty things at this moment.This will effect the whole country.Big shame for humanity if the genetics are lost forever.

Instead of destroying the genetics, they should buy the opium stock from the farmers for medicinal use in the west, but that is not happening.

Namaste

[mriko]

Instead of destroying the genetics, they should buy the opium stock from the farmers for medicinal use in the west, but that is not happening.

This is such a shame, morphine is lacking everywhere. In haiti after the last hearthquake, dozens of amputation where done without anaesthesic, no pain killer. These people sure would have appreciated some "made in Afghanistan" morphine. The stuff is lacking, thus making prices high, and some want to keep them high so they can fill their pocket some more. Can't do that with a legal afghan opium production !

I might be going far in here, but... could there be also some link with the maybe soon-to-be-legal cannabis industry of some Western country ? I don't know... It's the second thing after monsanto which popped in my mind reading the article, and I know to well this kind of popping...

Irie !

Merci Mriko pour l'info!
Worrying! One more reason for us to preserve and reproduce our pure ghany ganja!

However I have trouble believing an attack anti-drugs, U.S OTAN are in Afghanistan as the Mountain of money related to heroin, they have too much to lose I think! The fungus may be simply linked to climate change in this region? A culture may be too intense since the real terrorists NWO occupied this land?

Anyway wa have to reproduce f2 brothers before doing crosses

[Dr_Tre]

Bad news indeed, but the whole gene pool to be lost is very exaggerated.There is no disease that can destroy every single plant in Afghanistan and there are very few diseases that can destroy most of the crop in the country.You know, these are extremely hardy plants grown outdoors in the desert for centuries, perfectly adapted to the local environment, not your basement-grown super-duper hybrid that would not survive a heavy rain let alone any disease.Besides we live in the chemical century I'm sure farmers could easily get their hands on some fungicides.

Climate change is not the cause imo.

https://www.sunshine-project.org/publ.../bk/bk3en.html

In haiti after the last hearthquake, dozens of amputation where done without anaesthesic, no pain killer.

Big shame for humankind if you have tons of a natural painkiller at the other side of the world.

The Dutch government sponsored for millions of tax payers money the saffron project so that the farmers will cultivate saffron instead of opium poppies.

https://www.crocussativus.nl/index.php?page=51

Namaste

[Rinse]

This shit makes me mad I want to blow up monsanto!

[yesum]

good excuse to buy more mazar and afghan seeds. darn you mriko!

[Pseudo]

tick tock tick tock, every day i get one step closer.... fuck monsanto, every day jesse ventura looks smarter, we need to band together people, all 41,000,000 of us

Fuck them.They no more want anything to be natural.No natural dope.Just pills.No natural food.Just pills too.Nobody have heard of the INICON project?We are fucked...it's time to get again the guillotine on public places.