Sentence examples for poppy fields from inspiring English sources

Colonel Abdali is responsible for eradicating the province's poppy fields.

He smelled the poppy fields outside of Kandahar.

Another potential solution is utilizing herbicides to destroy poppy fields.

Or maybe the Americans could launch airstrikes against poppy fields, he suggested.

As a matter of policy, American troops no longer eradicate poppy fields.

Hundreds of Shan militia fighters protect the villages and the poppy fields from government interference.

There have since been no reports of farmers cemented into wells or airstrikes on poppy fields.

Worse, the eradication of poppy fields in Nad Ali pushed the population into supporting the Taliban.

But the Afghan government continues to eradicate poppy fields, financed by the United States.

In many places, the blight has wiped out more than half of individual poppy fields.

(In 2007, Jon Lee Anderson wrote about American efforts to eliminate the poppy fields).