1. An all-out war could also undermine American efforts to eradicate drug crops and dismantle Colombian-based smuggling networks. 2. Arlacchi has contended that drug crops could be eradicated by having farmers substitute legal crops in return for development projects like schools, health clinics and roads. 3. A Chinese emissary introduces opium poppies to the chieftain, urging him to plant the seeds and harvest the drug crop. 4. Bush said the United States should increase efforts to help countries replace drug crops with other legitimate income producing crops. 5. Farmers who lose their drug crops will simply move deeper into the wilderness to grow more, he says. 6. He added that everything from cocaine and heroin consumption in the United States to the controversial policy of aerial fumigation of drug crops in Colombia should be debated. 7. In guerrilla strongholds, the FARC raises money for the war effort by taxing cattle ranching, coal mining, oil exploration and the cultivation of drug crops. 8. In part, the money is to finance an expanded campaign to eradicate drug crops and destroy laboratories in the southern Colombian departments of Putumayo and Caqueta. 9. It called for church and government leaders to cooperate in developing economic projects to lessen dependence on drug crops as a source of revenue. 10. Official U.S. estimates indicate that the amount of land devoted to cultivation of drug crops rose by more than one-quarter percent last year, despite eradication efforts. |