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The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, ... The coca plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2 to 3 m (7 to 10 ft). The ...
A Coca plant. With only 14 percent of the global coca-leaf market in 1991, by 2004 Colombia was responsible for 80 percent of the world's cocaine production. [3] One estimate has Colombia's coca cultivation hectarage growing from 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) in the mid-1980s, to 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres) in 1998, to 99,000 in 2007. [3]
The coca plant, a tea-like shrub, was cultivated mostly by small farmers in the Yungas regions. In the 1980s, Bolivian farmers rushed to grow coca for the illicit market, as its price climbed and the economy collapsed.
“This is a coca-growing town that lives off coca,” said Frido Duran, a leader of coca growers in Yungas, a region northeast of La Paz. ... In requesting the study of the coca plant at the U.N ...
Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu, also known as Amazonian coca, is closely related to Erythroxylum coca var. coca, from which it originated relatively recently. [3] E. coca var. ipadu does not escape cultivation or survive as a feral or wild plant like E. coca var. coca [4] It has been suggested that due to a lack of genetic isolation to differentiate it from E. coca var. coca, E. coca var. ipadu ...
A new study of 17th-century remains from a crypt in Milan shows traces of an active component of the coca plant in the subjects’ brain tissue. ... were known to grow plants from the Americas in ...
With over 1,000 bottling plants at the turn of the 20th century, Coca-Cola faced the challenge of an inconsistent look. Competitors also attempted to imitate the beverage. ... amid growing ...
The coca plant, a tea-like shrub, was cultivated mostly by small farmers in the Chapare and Yungas regions. [5] About 65 percent of all Bolivian coca was grown in the Chapare region of Cochabamba Department; other significant coca-growing areas consisted of the Yungas of La Paz Department and various areas of Santa Cruz and the Tarija ...