| 31. | In Bolivia, 34, 000 acres of coca plants have been eradicated since the beginning of 1998.
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| 32. | And there is obvious application for the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to detect marijuana and coca plants.
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| 33. | An attack on coca plants may be only a first salvo in the attack of the Fusarium fungus.
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| 34. | Growers have insisted that the government help them grow alternative crops if it insists on destroying coca plants.
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| 35. | In 2006 the Colombian government destroyed around 730 square kilometres, reaching new records in coca plant destruction.
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| 36. | Samper said Colombia last year destroyed 25, 402 hectares of illegal coca plants, used to make cocaine.
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| 37. | Colombia is the second-most important source of coca plants in the world, trailing only neighboring Peru.
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| 38. | The fungus can live on in the soil for many years, moving from one coca plant to another.
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| 39. | The government remained firm in its decision to eradicate all illegal coca plants in the Chapare without compensating farmers.
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| 40. | The Bolivian Government is paying farmers 2, 500 dollars per hectare of coca plants destroyed voluntarily by farmers.
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