Colombian Coca Leaf Farming Hit Two-Decade High in 2023, UN Says By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine ...

This myth acknowledges the great importance that coca leaves had, and continue to have, in the culture and history of the people of the Andes. Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being ...

Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10 per cent in 2023 to reach the largest area in more than two decades, a UN report has found.

Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca leaf in 2023, the report said, up from 230,000 in 2022. That brought last year's potential cocaine production up 53% to 2,644 metric tons, compared ...

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BOGOTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by ...

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Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a ...