and what keeps them and their families alive. so if we came in and just destroyed the fields we would turn the whole population against us. how do you stop the farmers from farming opium? it is in the chain of income here and so you are hit with a very difficult position. if we suddenly take that away from them, without giving them alternative income for it then they are in a position that they just can t survive. we are still going hard after traffickers and production labs and trying not to hurt the lowest guy on the value chain which is the farmer. the so, geraldo, it is really a matter of economics. these farmers are used to the income they get from the opium production. the wheat, the substituted wheat they get is ten times less than what they get. they are counting on the money that the soldiers are giving to them now and they are hoping that the taliban isn t going to try to take that money from
and what keeps them and their families alive. so if we came in and just destroyed the fields we would turn the whole population against us. how do you stop the farmers from farming opium? it is in the chain of income here and so you are hit with a very difficult position. if we suddenly take that away from them, without giving them alternative income for it then they are in a position that they just can t survive. we are still going hard after traffickers and production labs and trying not to hurt the lowest guy on the value chain which is the farmer. the so, geraldo, it is really a matter of economics. these farmers are used to the income they get from the opium production. the wheat, the substituted wheat they get is ten times less than what they get. they are counting on the money that the soldiers are giving to them now and they are hoping that the taliban isn t going to try to take that money from
and what keeps them and their families alive. so if we came in and just destroyed the fields we would turn the whole population against us. how do you stop the farmers from farming opium? it is in the chain of income here and so you are hit with a very difficult position. if we suddenly take that away from them, without giving them alternative income for it then they are in a position that they just can t survive. we are still going hard after traffickers and production labs and trying not to hurt the lowest guy on the value chain which is the farmer. the so, geraldo, it is really a matter of economics. these farmers are used to the income they get from the opium production. the wheat, the substituted wheat they get is ten times less than what they get. they are counting on the money that the soldiers are giving to them now and they are hoping that the taliban isn t going to try to take that money from