Humala Aims to Cut Peru Coca Crop in Half by 2016, Official Says
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Peru plans to cut its coca crop, the world’s largest, in half as police increase eradication of the plant that forms the base ingredient of cocaine, the government’s drugs czar said.
Eradication will reduce the crop to 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) by 2016, the lowest in at least a decade, curbing exports of cocaine to countries such as Brazil and Spain, Carmen Masias told reporters in Lima today.