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With an AK-47 assault rifle slung casually over his shoulder, Allah Mohammad, while slashing an opium bulb with a vicious looking knife and extracting its milky nectar that seeps from the cuts, said that he thanks the chaos and ongoing militancy in Afghanistan as it allows him to grow poppies on his farm in the Ghorak district of the southern Kandahar province.
"I hate poppies and the drug trade but poverty and my dire need for money have forced me into this lucrative business and I can earn a relatively good income and support my family from farming the plant," a farmer in the southern Kandahar province, Sadiq Agha, 55, told Xinhua recently.
The two iconic red poppy sculptures that attracted more than five million visitors to the Tower of London are about to embark on a nationwide tour of Britain.
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