If poppies can grow all over the world, why is it that opium production is so heavily concentrated in Afghanistan?

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If poppies can grow all over the world, why is it that opium production is so heavily concentrated in Afghanistan?

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Similarly the majority of the worlds saffron is grown in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a HORRIBLE climate to grow saffron in BUT it requires a ton of non automatible labor to pick the two stamens from each toxic flower. When I was reading about this the average wage for the people who do this was something like 5 cents an hour.