1. The use of biochemical defoliators to destroy coca plants was also rejected. 2. An attack on coca plants may be only a first salvo in the attack of the Fusarium fungus. 3. As the United States helps Colombia wipe out coca plants in a major coca-growing province, the growers move to an adjacent province. 4. ----- Are the media barking up the wrong coca plant with George W. Bush? 5. Bright green coca plants and poppy fields dot many of the clearings, verdant cash crops in a land of hunger and war. 6. But, in essence, that broad plan became obsolete in May, when the Colombian police conducted a massive spraying operation of coca plants in Norte de Santander. 7. Coca farmers in southern Colombia ended talks with the government without agreement in a dispute over chemical spraying of illegal coca plants, El Tiempo reported. 8. Cocaine is made from the coca plant. 9. Cocaine, which comes from the coca plant, is a natural substance. 10. Colombia is the second-most important source of coca plants in the world, trailing only neighboring Peru. |
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