| 21. | Cocaine is made from the coca plant.
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| 22. | The coca plants all withered and died a few days after the chemicals rained down.
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| 23. | The Bolivian Government is paying farmers dlrs 2, 500 per hectare of coca plants destroyed.
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| 24. | New coca plants are destroyed by police and soldiers, who have clashed with peasant farmers.
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| 25. | Over the last three years about 106, 000 acres of coca plants have been uprooted.
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| 26. | Plots denuded of coca plants are abandoned and cause serious problems with erosion during seasonal rains.
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| 27. | Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine, which is made from coca plants.
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| 28. | We've tried out a defoliant that destroys coca plants but also burns up food crops.
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| 29. | Coca farmers have threatened to block roads if the government continues efforts to eradicate illegal coca plants.
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| 30. | "Coca plants that feed the cocaine industry must be destroyed, " he said.
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