lima, peru — Peruvian authorities scrambled to roll out a plan to fight fires raging out of control across the nation, razing crops, damaging archaeological treasures, and leaving several ...

Though the exact amount of coca in Peru has been the subject of recent debate, reports indicate that coca crops have increased and are spreading. Coca cultivation rose 22 percent to 88,200 hectares in ...

Coffee producers in Peru are abandoning their farms to work on plantations that grow coca, the main ingredient in cocaine, due to slumping coffee prices and delays in certifying organic beans, the ...

Much of its crop is more mature and higher yielding than Colombia's. Peru also does not eradicate in the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley, the world' leading coca-growing region.

The government of Peru hopes to halve the amount of coca grown in the country by 2021, an ambitious plan that is unlikely to succeed unless a concerted effort is made to improve upon lackluster ...

LIMA, PERU (AP) - Peruvian coca cultivation likely rose 4 percent for a second straight year in 2008 despite efforts to eradicate the crop, the country’s top anti-drug official said Friday. Gen ...

Peru eradicated 32,000 hectares (79,012 acres) of illegal coca crops in 2014, when the initial goal was 30,000 hectares (74,074 acres), Otarola said.

Peru, the world's second-biggest producer of coca and cocaine, produced 290 tons of cocaine from 53,700 hectares of coca crop in 2007, according to the U.N., with most of its product going to Europe.