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Government efforts to eradicate the expansion of coca cultivation in Bolivia began in 1983, when Bolivia committed itself to a five-year program to reduce coca production and created the Coca Eradication Directorate (Dirección de la Reconversión de la Coca—Direco) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Campesino Affairs, and Livestock Affairs. [6]
In Peru, areas planted with coca rose by 18% last year, and in Bolivia — where there are no figures for 2022 — there was an increase of 4% a year earlier, she said.
A coca plantation in the Yungas region of Bolivia in 1924 where historically cultivation had been done using slave labor. Many newly brought slaves died due to the weather. Coca leaves helped with alleviating altitude sickness. [8] Just like the mines of Potosí, coca plantations became a cash-crop of the region.
In the early 19th century, coca was cultivated in what is today the Dominican Republic (see Mayorasgo de Koka). In 2014, coca plantations were discovered in Mexico, [24] and in 2020 in Honduras, [25] which could have major implications for the illegal cultivation of the plant.
Bolivia’s coca farmers are battling for control of their main market in the highland city of La Paz.A fire broke out near where protesters and police clashed on Monday, with both sides blaming ...
Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more ...
Before the 1990s, harvesting coca leaves had been a relatively small-scale business in Colombia. [3] Though Peru and Bolivia dominated coca-leaf production in the 1980s and early 1990s, manual-eradication campaigns there, the successful rupture of the air bridge that previously facilitated the illegal transport of Bolivian and Peruvian coca leaf to Colombia, and a fungus that wiped out a large ...
In 1988 Bolivia slaughtered 200,000 tons of cattle and exported 48,000 live cattle to Brazil, as well as processed beef to Chile and Peru. [16] The country's medium and large cattle ranchers were organized into two large producer associations one in Beni and one in Santa Cruz that marketed beef and attempted to set domestic prices. [16]