Afghanistan Swaps Heroin for Wheat

One silver lining in the skyrocketing price of wheat? Afghani farmers are planting wheat instead of poppy.

" In parts of Helmand Afghan farmers are this year sowing wheat instead of poppy - not because they have suddenly been converted to the argument that producing heroin is not in the national interest.

Market forces have been the deciding factor - with wheat prices doubling in the past year, and the street price of heroin falling, it is now more cost effective to grow wheat.