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host of the on the grievance on coast and to me it's clear we need to change the solutions or out the join me for a deep dive into the green transformation. for me to do full of them with visited of the news asia coming up today. the thought of bonds, soft bond on coffee cultivation in of i'm is done officially, the group has banged it. what in practice is allowing it with, as you can see from our announcement, we said that for the moment we will not be taking action against the farmers who planted opium this year. if we do, for many farmers will suffer great problems that we speak to farmers who explain what these problems are and how they're i like the state of the country under

thought. yvonne gordon and the social stigma of being a single mother in china. women tell us of discrimination at the hands of the government for being an unmarried parent. ah irish energy, welcome to d. w. news. asia ledger could join us. the taliban recently banned to public cultivation and have gone is done but in reality isn't enforcing it. in fact, as you will see, a senior volleyball official told us as much so why the band. the reasons are complex, but center around one indisputable reality. a lack of options. opium cultivation for many of guns, including sometimes the taliban is the only way to earn enough money in a shattered economy. the brown mass oozing out of this pompey plant is

extremely valuable. and right now its harvest time in afghanistan. farmers are collecting the raw material necessary for opium, morphine and heroine production. but in early april the taliban forbade poppy cultivation, but to choose i would if this plant is bound from cultivation, my friend that we will be forced to steal. i like it doesn't make any sense to harvest of the crops like may's all pomegranate. they don't do yielding of profits to live off and that's why the man are going to do any machine. we visited these farmers just as this year's crop was being harvested for 28 years mohammed taj, his family has been cultivating opium. the extremely dry climate in south afghanistan is ideal for the plants. tied our credit, but we started planting opium because we don't have enough water. all the necessary equipment for the crops show that the people are poor and opium is profitable. the

this farmer tells us he has 25 family members to care for. he has many children, he also grows grapes, but that's not enough to make ends meet. these bags contain his valuable product, and this is the market where the ra opium will be sold and it's the place where local drug lords meet. they smuggle the opium to pakistan or iran from there, it is refined to heroin and shipped around the world, including to europe. the dealers are not happy with the ban on opium cultivation. die war dog. we told the tale bond, they how to do something 1st. first, if they want us to stop selling. opium was actually one moment by the 2 numbers. in early april the taliban announced they were immediately banning the cultivation of opium. but the deputy minister for taliban drug policy tells us this law is not being enforced. proposal woodard, for as you can see from our announcement, we said that for the moment we will not be taking action against pharmacy planted

opium this year. if we do that, the many farmers will suffer great problems, listener will run bill clark. the in 2020 afghanistan was the world's largest opium producer, responsible for 85 percent of global production. according to the he, when the taliban taxed the cultivation and trade of the crump, earning millions of u. s. dollars and helping finance their wor, something they have never officially admitted. a shy sunny explains to us why the taliban are trying to ban opium production. his institute collects data and research is drug cultivation in afghanistan. the objective is certainly to get the approval 1st of the international community hopefully move closer and closer to the recognition of the regime, which is very important for them because it would been allow many other revenues to fluid. oh,

so for the taliban minister confirmed this in the interview. he said the world has to help us. we asked them to take notice and stand by our side. didn't know how to move gentlemen from his time dollars corresponded. i knew that their fee holds reported from of gone on for many years. i leave the thought bon have banned opium cultivation officially, but as we see in our report, they don't appear to be actively enforcing the ban wise that you think i mean, this is the thing that this is the same issue that there are public had that you know, enforcing the band is extremely difficult because on the one hand if you enforce it, what you're going to be doing is taking the likelihood of farmers who have really very few other options to make money. you know, like, during the 20 years of the occupation, the former public always came up with these different schemes of you know, poppy alternatives like pomegranates or aloe vera,

or any apples, any, any sort of things that they thought would somehow or sat from that they thought would make more money, and in reality, they could never support any of those market to make sure that, for instance, those alternative crop would either be sold in sufficient amounts in the domestic market or would be exported properly around the region. so to enforce it is extremely, extremely difficult. and at the same time, you have to remember that, you know, the taller bond in the past was involved in the drug trade themselves. they made millions of dollars a year off of it, usually within, by helping with the transportation of it. the former public too was very complacent and very much involved. you know, from the ministry of interior to m. p. 's allied, the government to strong men, alive with the government ministers and the government. they also had hand in this, you know,

drug trade. so it's not so easy that then why violent officially, why the taliban resort to this measure? because it's a nice, you know, it's a nice p r. it's a nice bugs to create. you know, we did was allegedly former public to. but the truth is they're falling victim to the same truck because they're banding it, as you said in words, but unable to enforce it. and more importantly, not able to come up with real sustainable alternative sources of income at a time when the economy is absolutely suffering even more than it was during the public. so people are desperate for any way to make money. and obviously, you know, poppy make some money, it doesn't make as much money as the trafficking of it does, which is usually handled by regional mach box. so, i mean, in the army and mafias, but you know, it's some sort of a reliable income for people talk to us about those people. i mean,

you've travel quite extensively through of gone hassan, whatever the foremost or new for instance, i mean, is opium, controversial? really? the only viable option for most of them in a lot of places. you know it's, it's, it grows really easy. it grows fairly easily. you know, and it's something that, you know, there will always be a market for, you know, you know, you know, that you can always sell it. and on the other hand, you have instances where, especially this is a big issue for public where, you know, certain strong men lived within the area. and they would essentially force you to do it whether you want, if you were complying. but really, you know, i, i remember a few years ago, the u. s. embassy had this meeting to talk about actually admitted to failing and the drug war and i was on and, and when someone brought up the issue of alternative crops, they made a really good point. they said, you can never compete with an illicit product. you know,

the price of an illicit product is always going to be more valuable than any legal substance. right? because of the nature of trying to get it. and so farmers know this and you know, it's something that they've been doing for so long and it's something that they know there is a market for. and as i said, if no government is able to comp of true, clear, sustainable alternative. this is just going to continue to be a problem and then on we're leave with her for to do though, ali, that the phoenix dongle. thank you so much for joining us on the thank you to china next. where if you are a single mother, your chances of receiving state benefits are dramatically reduced access to maternity leave and medical help for instance, is harder to come bye. a lot of it has more to do with social stigmas around being a single mother than any official laws. she is to wheels old and a beloved child of you. but boarding her out of wedlock wasn't well accepted. you

couldn't even claim maternity benefits. she is entitled to by law downhill longer when you look over it. at that time i knew someone who had successfully received the benefit through an online application. oh to herself showing yo yo yo. but when the rest of his tried highlight both, we were all rejected your mail mail, picola. oh, good. and what was the reason you need to provide your marriage certificate? not mad at mothers, for instance in shank, i have almost 5 months of maternity leave. but single mothers don't, shall i get a whiff with our shrew? melbourne thatcher? georgia. i thought piling the law doesn't actually specify it's illegal and non human danilo, even though the enforcement agency will say 2, i don't sure you're welcome. i said the law is written one way i can afford it, but it's interpreted another way. i have her, she does not have the young. oh it usher. many single mothers across china face the

stigma from the system and from their families as well. i all of course i faced a lot of resistance, especially from my mother who said i was crazy. she thought that this is unacceptable for traditional chinese families. but it was too much hard work as more people feel discriminated against more us speaking up, a new report estimate that there are 19000000 single mothers in china. ah course in your door from imo. i think the reason for the increasing number of single mothers is firstly due to a change in ideals for her doctor, more and more unmarried. women perhaps feel that getting pregnant before marriage is not a shameful thing by the bush. and believe that even without getting married and they're able to give birth, cannot wear and to raise a child that may always letting life as a g u, any occasion has the okay. yeah. either this month and beijing to lawmakers called for better laws to support single models. but even they say that it's impossible to

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