Weekly Report - 04 October 2012 (WR-12-39)

The study begun in 2009 by the European Union (EU) at the request of the Bolivian government to determine how much coca actually goes to ‘traditional’ consumption — critical to President Evo Morales’s proposal to raise the legal cultivation ceiling from 12,000 hectares (ha) to 20,000ha — should have been finished by now. While the original brief has in fact been completed, the Morales government has decided a second phase is necessary, which means it will not be ready until the end of 2012 or early 2013.

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