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Afghan Opium Crop May Rise After "Cash Bonanza"

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Opium prices in Afghanistan more than doubled last year after disease cut production in half, the United Nations said, creating a "cash bonanza" for many farmers that could drive up cultivation of the drug in 2011.

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