Peru coca cultivation will shift to more remote areas

Significance

However, official sources suggest that production is increasingly focused in areas of the Amazon where it is encouraging deforestation as well as encroaching on indigenous land. Peru is the world’s second-largest producer of coca after Colombia.

Impacts

• The Devida figures provide only a rough guide to cocaine production but this appears not to have declined.
• Production in border areas is increasingly in the hands of foreign operators.
• Poverty in the highlands will continue to stimulate migration to coca-producing areas.