(ANSA) - ROMA, 27 APR - epa09163294 A view of poppy fields in
Helmand, Afghanistan, 27 April 2021. Since the fall of the
Taliban regime in 2001, the Afghan government and the
international community have spent more than 9 billion USD to
end opium cultivation, without success. Afghanistan remains the
producer of the majority of the world's heroin and is becoming a
significant global producer of methamphetamine. EPA/WATAN YAR
(ANSA).