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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
This is The Fifth Floor, at the heart of global storytelling,
with BBC journalists from all around the world.
I'm your host, Farinak Amidi.
A few years back, Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of the world's opium,
the key ingredient for producing heroin.
Opium is extracted from poppy sap.
And places like Helmand province in the south of the country used to be covered in poppy fields.
These cultivations were so large you could detect them from space.
Over the years, many unsuccessful attempts have been made to clamp down on this illicit trade.
Then, the Taliban took over the country, and in 2022, they banned poppy farming completely.
Three years on, how has this measure been implemented, and how is it affecting people?
Yama Buddies and Mamoun Durrani from BBC's Afghan Service have been looking into this story and they are here with me in the fifth floor studios.
Welcome, gentlemen.