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Colombian coca

Scientific Name: Erythroxylum novogranatense var. novogranatense

Family: Erythroxylaceae

Category: Dicot

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Description: In 2012, coca production in Colombia amounted to 0.2% of Colombia&#39s overall GDP and 3% of Colombia&#39s GDP related to the agricultural sector. The great&nbsp&*! The cocaine trade is assessed a valuation of $10 billion per year in U.S. dollars. Colombia&#39s share of coca production is&nbsp&*! Colombia is close to a deal that could take rebels out of the drug trade. But right now, coca production is soaring.&*! A farmer harvests coca leaves in a coca plantation in the mountains of the department of Cauca, Colombia. Photograph: AFP/Gettys.&*! &quotIf you want, I&#39ll take a picture of you with a line this long,&quot the Colombian Walter White tells me, holding his hands about a foot apart as I was&nbsp&*! Following the decision to end aerial spraying, the United Nations&#39 Office on Drugs and Crime reported a sharp increase in Colombian coca&nbsp&*! What looks like a strategic defeat for a major U.S.-backed attack on drug production could also prolong Colombia&#39s civil war.&*! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The following organisations and individuals contributed to the survey of coca crops in Colombia for 2014 and the preparation.&*! - 7 min - Uploaded by DocsOnlineYou can watch the full documentary at OnDemand Vimeo channel https:// vimeo.com &*! Colombian farmer shows off cocaine Photo: A Colombian coca grower shows a plastic bag with freebase cocaine (AFP: Mauricio Duenas).&*! Colombian Army Gen. Mario Montoya (L) examines a cocaine pack confiscated by troops Thomson ReutersFile picture of Colombian Army&nbsp&*! Cocaine is produced from the leaves of the coca plant (Erythoxylon coca). The plant grows almost exclusively in northern and western South America. Colombia &nbsp&*! President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia has appealed to America for help in eradicating coca crops after Colombia returned to the top of&nbsp&*! Colombia has surpassed Peru in coca cultivation, according to a new United Nations report, and may have reclaimed its title as the world&#39s top&nbsp&*! After falling behind Peru as the world&#39s largest cocaine producer, Colombia has regained the top spot. The South American country now grows&nbsp&*! After Pablo Excobar&#39s death, Medelln became even more steeped in the drug trade. Now, cocaine in Colombia had infiltrated every aspect of the culture, even to&nbsp&*! Colombian Women, Colombian Cocaine (Confusion Part Two). DSC03981. Colombian Chicks. They say that the most beautiful women of Latin America can be&nbsp&*! COLOMBIAN police poking around a shipment of bricks bound for Honduras last month discovered half a tonne of cocaine hidden within the&nbsp&*! Banking illegal cocaine earnings, however, is far more complicated than banking coffee income. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia remain the most important&nbsp&*! Some 4% of the world&#39s population has consumed cocaine in his or her life. That is almost 300 million people. Approximately half of this&nbsp&*! Colombia posted a sharp increase in coca cultivation for 2014, the United Nations said on Thursday, raising concerns about a resurgence in&nbsp&*! Little is known about the long-term effects on the soil and people of glyphosate sprayed as part of the Colombian government&#39s anti-cocoa&nbsp&*! Soldiers of the Seventh Division of the Colombian National Army escort workers hired by the government during an operation to eradicate coca&nbsp&*! Colombia is shifting its fight against the cocaine trade to heavily armed assaults on drug labs and coca fields, as the prospect of a peace deal&nbsp&*! A Colombian soldier provides security during the eradication of an illegal coca plantation. Credit Photograph by RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP /&nbsp&*! Authorities in Colombia still need to extract the cocaine alkaloid from the toner powder in which it was hidden to determine its final weight.&*! According to U.S. Government estimates, ninety-five percent of the cocaine entering the United States originates in Colombia. Peru and Bolivia are the other &nbsp&*! Colombian coca farmers increased cultivation area by 44% last year for fear any peace deal may lead to eradication, the UN says.&*! AMY Winehouse is not just wrecking her own life in a blizzard of cocaine. The Colombian government says the star&#39s drug habit &#8212 and those of thousands more&nbsp&*! Colombian cocaine traffickers had hired engineering experts from Russia and the United States to help with the design of the submarine, which apparently&nbsp&*! For workers in Colombia and Guatemala, a strong union can also mean the difference between life and death. The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke originated to&nbsp&*! It was the murder &#8212 execution-style, in broad daylight &#8212 of a friend and fellow farmer in the Colombian countryside that prompted German&nbsp&*! Colombia&#39s rate of deforestation of humid tropical forest is among the world&#39s of the inhabitants of the Amazon region where most of Colombia&#39s coca crop is&nbsp&*! When deforestation linked to cocaine production pales next to the harm caused by soya and oil palm, something is seriously wrong, says&nbsp&*! Reviews. by borislav valkov Date Added: Sunday 13 October, 2013 How to buy this product.I want buy 15 seeds,and what is payment method. Rating: 5 of 5&nbsp&*! The latest Colombia Coca Survey, produced by UNODC jointly with the Colombian Government, was released today showing that the country&#39s&nbsp&*! weaken the FARC and reduce its drug income through targeting coca fields, transporting coca paste from Bolivia and Peru to Colombian cocaine laboratories.&*! Colombia has paid a high price to fight the &#8220war on drugs,&#8221 with costs From 2000 to 2013, Colombia succeeded in reducing coca cultivation from 160,000.&*! Thursday, October 1, will mark the end of Colombia&#39s aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops, representing a hard-fought victory against an&nbsp&*! Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural In the late 1970s, Colombian drug traffickers began setting up an elaborate&nbsp&*! Colombian government has announced that it will suspend coca crop fumigation using the controversial chemical glyphosate. A well known&nbsp&*! From stealing tombstones in his youth and smuggling contraband, he eventually began smuggling cocaine paste from Peru into Colombia where it was&nbsp&*! Colombian navy Lt. Cmdr. Rodrigo Pedraza with a 100-foot-long submarine intended for use in smuggling cocaine, one of several&nbsp&*! BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) -- Colombia, the world&#39s top cocaine producer, will give land to farmers who stop growing coca, the raw ingredient for&nbsp&*! The number of hectares used for illicit coca production in Colombia jumped more than 40 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to U.S.&nbsp&*! LIMA, Peru (AP) &#8212 In a July 15 story about coca cultivation in Peru and Colombia , The Associated Press inaccurately converted hectares to&nbsp&*! LIMA, Peru (AP) &#8212 In a July 15 story about coca cultivation in Peru and Colombia , The Associated Press inaccurately converted hectares to&nbsp&*! J Toxicol Environ Health A. 200972(15-16):974-85. doi: 10.1080/ 15287390902929733. Risks to Colombian amphibian fauna from cultivation of coca&nbsp&*! Two planes fumigated fields of coca, the basis for cocaine, in Colombia in 2006. Some fear the chemical causes cancer. Credit Fernando&nbsp&*!