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Southern Afghanistan is a Growing Region: a named cultivation region above Growing Areas. It covers the five provinces of the surveys' Southern region: Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul and Daykundi. Kandahar and Helmand are its growing areas.
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Why the region is on the map
- The cannabis surveys of the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2009 to 2012) report cultivation by province and gather the provinces into six regions: Central, Eastern, North-eastern, Northern, Southern and Western (2010 survey, Table 1, p. 13; the same grouping in 2011, Table 1, p. 13).
- Cannabis was found in Hilmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and in Day Kundi in 2010 and 2011 (2010, Table 1; 2011, Table 1).
- The 2010 survey estimated that more than half of the country's cannabis cultivation lay in the Southern region (p. 12).
Growing status
The status is Active: the surveys found cannabis grown in the region's provinces from 2009 to 2011. No source read says that growing in the region has ended.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy drawn on administrative units: the five provinces whole (OpenStreetMap province relations, fetched 19 October 2026).
- The region takes in the existing border of each of its growing areas where that border and the province line differ by a few square kilometres.
- The union is about 157,000 km², the figure in the infobox.
- The grouping of provinces is the surveys' own, used for their regional figures; it is not a physical region, and the article says whose grouping it is.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Accessions inside the border
- Six seed accessions are filed under the region through its areas: ATA-AFG-HEL-0120240001, DCC-AFG-HEL-0120160001 and RSC-AFG-HEL-0120220001 (Helmand); RSC-AFG-KAN-0120190001, RSC-AFG-KAN-0120190001-R1 and VIB-AFG-KAN-0100000001 (Kandahar).
- Richard Evans Schultes's four sheets from near the city of Kandahar, Schultes 26503 (1971), Schultes 26504 (1971), Schultes 26505 (1971) and Schultes 26508 (1971), lie inside the border. None is filed under the region, because none of their labels says the plant was cultivated; 26505 is from a plant growing as an escape in a formerly irrigated field.
Sources
- The surveys of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012: the provincial tables (Table 1 of the 2010 and 2011 reports) and the regional passages cited in the article.