The cultivation of coca bush, which yields the leaf used for the production of cocaine, is down by around 12 per cent in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, according to the 2011 national coca monitoring survey presented today by UNODC and the Bolivian Government. The area under cultivation reached around 27,200 hectares (ha) in 2011, down from some 31,000 ha seen in 2010, marking the end of 3 years of high levels of cultivation.
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