On the recordApril 12, 2016
One of the things we tried to do, I think, in Afghanistan, was to convince the farmers there--and help the farmers there to learn how to plant stuff other than poppies and to make money doing that.
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Senator Carper discusses efforts to reduce poppy farming in Afghanistan.
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