Sentences with phrase «coca crops»

Gonzalo Andrade, a butterfly researcher at Bogota's National University, says that of the five species of Colombia's coca crops, only one or two can be used to produce cocaine.

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Crops of cocoa have been suffering due to dry weather in West Africa, where most cocoa is produced, and a fungal disease that has wiped out around a third of global coca production.

Under that deal, the government has pursued crop - substitution and alternative - development programs to pull farmers away from coca.

This had been a farming family, tilling some 20 acres on which they could sustain themselves with several cows, some food crops and a small amount of coca.

Because coca is often planted in the same field with food crops, corn, bananas, yucca and beans are killed along with it.

At the same time, the war on drugs was pushing coca cultivation out of Peru and Bolivia (which are to the south of Colombia), making it an even more attractive cash crop for Colombian farmers.

In the years that followed, armed groups from both sides of Colombia's civil war have intensified their incursions in pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastation.

Like the rest of its Puffleg brethern, it has «little cotton balls above [its] legs,» said Luis Mazariegos - Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy, in an interview with the AP.The bird's tiny territory in the Cauca province is under siege, however, by the environmentally destructive drugs industry, which relies on slashing and burning vast swathes of land for growing illegal crops such as coca, otherwise known as the raw material in cocaine.

Such as raw silk that was gown in in Columbia as a replacement crop for socially divisive coca (cocaine) farming.