21.   Yet in the past decade, both worldwide opium production and coca production have almost doubled.

22.   Peru farmers cannot quickly step up coca production while the surveillance flights are grounded.

23.   Albright said Friday night that Peru and Bolivia have reduced coca leaf production and Colombia can do the same with hard work.

24.   As flights from Peru grew too risky, traffickers shifted coca production into Colombia.

25.   Bolivia may lose most U.S. foreign aid because it has failed to meet an agreed target for wiping out coca leaf production.

26.   Both groups finance their operations by taxing coca production.

27.   But the Andean nation reduced coca production by more than two thirds in the last five years, according to U.S. drug enforcement officials.

28.   Finally, Ramirez rejected predictions that if coca production is eliminated in Colombia it will simply shift to neighboring countries like Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.

29.   He said he was prepared to debate the U.S. drug eradication figures, and insisted that coca production was down.

30.   In ten years, the area of land dedicated coca production has quadrupled, despite extensive fumigation efforts.