1.   Drug control officials said the decision would likely result in a boom of opium cultivation beginning in about two weeks, the start of growing season.

2.   Taliban officials this week gave the signal to farmers to resume opium cultivation.

3.   The extent of Northern Alliance earnings from opium cultivation is not clear, the U.N. experts said.

4.   Then the Taliban announced an end to opium cultivation.

5.   To compile its annual survey, the U.N. program employed Afghans to travel through rural areas where opium cultivation had been reported and to interview farmers and officials.

6.   When they slashed opium cultivation last year, there were no rewards, only more isolation, because they would not turn over Osama bin Laden.

7.   Assistance to remote areas of Thailand have largely eliminated opium cultivation, thought the country remains a key smuggling route for heroin.

8.   Few would miss the actual opium cultivation.

9.   Laos has opened an anti-narcotics office in the heart of the Golden Triangle drug zone to combat opium cultivation and rising production of ampehtamines.

10.   Last year, the Taliban ordered a halt to opium cultivation, citing religious principles.