إنتاج الكوكايين يصل إلى مستويات قياسية infographic
Graphic shows coca bush cultivation and cocaine seizures worldwide between 2010 and 2021.
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إنتاج الكوكايين يصل إلى مستويات قياسية

By Jordi Bou

March 16, 2023 - أشار تقرير للأمم المتحدة إلى أن زراعة الكوكا ارتفعت بنسبة 35% بين العامين 2020 و2021 لتسجل بذلك مستويات قياسية في ظل انتعاش الطلب في أعقاب عمليات الإغلاق خلال فترة تفشي كوفيد.

Coca cultivation soared 35 per cent from 2020 to 2021, a record high and the sharpest year-to-year increase since 2016.

The rise is a result of both an expansion in coca bush cultivation and improvements in the process of converting coca bush to cocaine hydrochloride, the drug which is then sold on the streets.

Despite record cocaine seizures of nearly 2,000 tons in 2021, anti-narcotics efforts have only slowed down the growth of cocaine smuggling as it continues to meet the rapacious global demand for the drug.

Overall, the the report found Europe and North America are the largest markets for cocaine, followed by South and Central America and the Caribbean.

The growing global demand for production has been met by a surge in coca cultivation in Bolivia, Peru, and particularly, Colombia.

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PUBLISHED: 16/03/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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