Colombia breaks record for coca cultivation in 2021

Colombia breaks record for coca cultivation in 2021 – UN

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 22, 2022 12:04 am

Bogotá, Colombia: Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, broke its own record for coca leaf cultivation with some 204,000 hectares planted in 2021, a UN body reported Thursday (Friday in Manila).

There had been 'an increase of 43 percent in the area planted with coca... from 143,000 ha in 2020 to 204,000 ha in 2021,' the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a statement.

In this file photo taken on August 20, 2022, a raspachin (coca leaf collector) works in a coca plantation in Catatumbo, Norte de Santander Department, Colombia. Colombia, the world's leading cocaine producer, broke its own record for coca leaf cultivation in 2021, a UN body said on Oct. 20, 2022 (October 21 in Manila), as the government highlighted the failure of the US-led war on drugs. AFP PHOTO

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