1.   Basher Muhammad, an opium farmer in his sown fields near Kandahar, is worried about his financial future.

2.   A second proposal was to pay opium farmers to plow under their fields.

3.   Diplomats and relief officials in Afghanistan said a considerable number of refugees fleeing into Pakistan with their families were opium farmers who could not pay their debts.

4.   Even as the fighting continues, opium farmers are returning to their fields, tilling the ground for what had been their most reliable cash crop.

5.   With the Taliban gone, opium farmers across the country plan are planting liberally.

6.   Among its chief tools are U.N.-sponsored programs that give opium farmers incentives to grow other cash crops such as maize, beans and lentils.

7.   He is seeking international funding for programs to encourage poor coca and opium farmers to switch to legal, but less lucrative crops.

8.   Many opium farmers are deeply in debt to businessmen from whom they borrow against their poppy crop.

9.   The officials said they would share information on anti-drug treatment to reduce demand and on switching opium farmers to coffee and other crops.