A peasant walks among coca crops in Cauca, Colombia, Jan. 27, 2017. The United Nations said, Sept. 19, 2018, Colombia's acreage of coca, the raw material for cocaine, expanded 17 percent to hit a new record last year.
Reuters: Colombia's coca cultivation hits record in 2017: U.N.
Colombia’s acreage of coca, the raw material for cocaine, expanded 17 percent to hit a new record last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the government mulls whether to restart aerial fumigation with the herbicide glyphosate.
The total area of the Andean nation under coca cultivation increased to 171,000 hectares (422,550 acres) by the end of 2017, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, due to increased productivity and growers eager to expand in the hope of getting more aid to switch to legal crops.
The figure is the largest since the U.N. began keeping records, it said, adding that potential cocaine production was 1,379 metric tons last year.
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WNU Editor: The U.N report is here .... Coca Crops in Colombia at all-time high, UNODC Report finds (United Nations).
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