Gloria Maria Borrero, Colombia's Minister of Justice and Law listens as Colombia's Defense Minister Guillermo Botero speaks during a news conference in Bogota, Colombia September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's acreage of coca, the raw material for cocaine, expanded 17 percent to hit a new record last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the government mulls whether to restart aerial fumigation with the herbicide glyphosate.
The total area of the Andean nation under coca cultivation increased to 171,000 hectares (422,550 acres) by the end of 2017, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, due to increased productivity and growers eager to expand in the hope of getting more aid to switch to legal crops.
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