Poppy culture: Update on opium

From the 2009 "Afghan Opium Survey", the annual report produced by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime:

• Poppy cultivation declined 22 percent from May 2008 to June 2009 from 477 acres to 304 acres (or if you prefer your statistics in hectares - from 193,000 hectares to 123,000). 
• 20 out of 34 provinces are now poppy free.

How to explain the improvement?  Two words: military operations.  Here's a list of the damage they were able to do: 

• 90 tons of the chemicals to produce heroin
  
• 450 tons of poppy seeds
• 50 tons of opium
• 7 tons of morphine
• 1.5 tons of heroin
• 19 tons of hash
• 27 laboratories