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The percentage increase in land that Colombia’s peasants devoted to growing coca last year, according to a United Nations report, which called the boost “a surprise and a shock” given intense efforts to eradicate cocaine’s raw ingredient. Estimated cocaine production, however, increased only slightly in Colombia and other Andean nations — to about 994 metric tons in 2007 from 984 metric tons the year before, according to the UN — as cultivation shifted to smaller, less-productive plots.
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