Part 4. Colombia Coca Cultivation Survey
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PART 4. COLOMBIA COCA CULTIVATION SURVEY Colombia Coca Survey for 2005 SUMMARY FACTS SHEET Variation 2004 2005 on 2004 Net coca cultivation (rounded total) 80,000 hectares + 8% 86,000 hectares Of which Meta-Guaviare region 28,500 hectares - 9% 25,970 hectares Pacific region 15,800 hectares + 12% 17,650 hectares Central region 15,100 hectares + 4% 15,630 hectares Putumayo-Caqueta region 10,900 hectares +28% 13,950 hectares Elsewhere 10,100 hectares +24% 12,570 hectares Reported accumulated aerial spraying of 136,550 hectares + 2 % 138,775 hectares coca bush Reported manual eradication of coca bush 2,589 hectares 31,285 hectares US$ 810 /kg + 12 % US$ 910 /kg Average farm-gate price of coca paste COP 2,119,000 /kg - 0.5% COP 2,109,000 /kg Total farm-gate value of the production of coca leaf US$ 843 million and derivatives in percent of GDP (US$ 122 billion in 2005) 0.7% in percent of GDP of agricultural sector 6% (US$ 13.8 billion in 2005) Number of households involved in coca 68,600 cultivation households Annual household gross income from the US$ 12,300 production of coca leaf and its derivatives Annual use of fertilizers on coca fields ~85,000 mt Annual use of herbicides on coca fields ~12 million litres Potential production of cocaine 6401 mt 640mt In percent of world cocaine production 68 % 70 % US$ 1,713 /kg + 9% US$ 1,860/kg Average cocaine price COP 4,600,000 /kg - 6% COP 4,315,000/kg Reported seizure of cocaine 149,297 kg + 16% 173,265 kg Reported seizure of heroin 773 kg - 4% 745 kg Reported destruction of illegal laboratories2 1,865 + 5% 1,953 1 Cocaine production for 2004 has been revised following the field findings obtained in 2005. 2 Includes laboratories processing coca paste/base, cocaine hydrochloride, heroin, morphine, potassium, permanganate, and non specified. 105 Colombia Coca Survey for 2005 Abbreviations CICAD Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission COP Colombian Pesos DANE National Department of Statistics DEA US Drugs Enforcement Agency DIRAN Colombian Anti-Narcotics Police DNE National Narcotics Office DNP National Planning Department ICMP Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme INCB International Narcotics Control Board IDB Inter-American Development Bank IDP Internally Displaced People PDA Alternative Development Programme PCI Presidential Programme against Illicit Crops RSS Colombian Social Solidarity Net SIMCI II Integrated Illicit Crops Monitoring System UIAF Special Administrative Unit on Information and Financial Analysis UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. US$ United States Dollars Acknowledgements The following organizations and individuals contributed to the implementation of the 2005 coca cultivation survey in Colombia, and to the preparation of the present report: Government of Colombia: Ministry of Interior and Justice National Narcotics Office -DNE Colombian Anti-Narcotics Police -DIRAN Ministry of Defence Colombia Agency for International Cooperation –ACCI Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation UNODC: Rodolfo Llinás, SIMCI Project Coordinator Orlando González, Digital Processing Expert Sandra Rodríguez, Digital Processing Expert Zully Sosa, Digital Processing Expert Maria Isabel Velandia, Digital Processing Expert Martha Paredes, Research and Analysis Expert Leonardo Correa, Field Engineer Juan Carlos Parra, Editing Engineer Martha Luz Gutierrez, Administrative Assistant Javier Espejo, Assistant Engineer Juan Pablo Ardila, Assistant Engineer Sandro Calvani, Representative for Colombia Guillermo Garcia, National Programme Officer Coen Bussink, Remote Sensing and GIS expert (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section - ICMP) Denis Destrebecq, Regional Illicit Crop Monitoring Expert (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section - ICMP) Anja Korenblik, Programme Manager (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section - ICMP) Thibault le Pichon, Chief (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section) Thomas Pietschmann, Research Officer (UNODC-Research and Analysis Section) Martin Raithelhuber, Programme Officer (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section – ICMP) Javier Teran, Statistician (UNODC – Research and Analysis Section – ICMP) The implementation of UNODC’s Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme in the Andean countries and the Colombia survey in 2005 was made possible thanks to financial contributions from the Governments of The United States of America (USAID), The Netherlands and United Kingdom. 106 Colombia Coca Survey for 2005 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 108 2 FINDINGS.............................................................................................................................................. 110 2.1 CULTIVATION .................................................................................................................................. 110 2.1.1 Coca Cultivation....................................................................................................................... 110 2.1.1.1 Regional analysis .......................................................................................................................... 118 2.1.1.2 Meta-Guaviare region.................................................................................................................... 120 2.1.1.3 Pacific region................................................................................................................................. 122 2.1.1.4 Central region................................................................................................................................ 124 2.1.1.5 Putumayo-Caqueta region ............................................................................................................ 126 2.1.1.6 Orinoco region............................................................................................................................... 128 2.1.1.7 Amazonia region ........................................................................................................................... 130 2.1.1.8 Sierra Nevada region.................................................................................................................... 132 2.1.1.9 Possible areas of new cultivation .................................................................................................. 133 2.1.1.10 Coca plant varieties....................................................................................................................... 135 2.1.1.11 Coca cultivation and poverty ......................................................................................................... 139 2.1.1.12 Coca cultivation and displacement................................................................................................ 141 2.1.1.13 Coca cultivation and the forest warden families programme ........................................................ 143 2.1.1.14 Coca cultivation in National Parks................................................................................................. 145 2.2 NEW FINDINGS ON YIELD AND PRODUCTION..................................................................................... 149 2.2.1 Coca leaf yield and coca leaf production................................................................................. 149 2.2.2 Annual yield ............................................................................................................................. 151 2.2.3 Coca leaf, coca paste and base production............................................................................. 159 2.2.4 Revised potential cocaine production ...................................................................................... 164 2.3 PRICES .......................................................................................................................................... 166 2.3.1 Coca leaf, coca base and cocaine prices ................................................................................ 166 2.4 REPORTED AERIAL SPRAYING AND MANUAL ERADICATION................................................................ 172 2.5 REPORTED SEIZURE ....................................................................................................................... 176 Index of Maps Map 1: Coca cultivation density in Colombia, 2005 ............................................................................ 109 Map 2: Coca cultivation density change in Colombia, 2004-2005 ..................................................... 112 Map 4: Coca cultivation density in Colombia, 2005 ............................................................................ 114 Map 3: Coca cultivation density in Colombia, 2004 ............................................................................ 114 Map 5: Changes in coca cultivation in Colombia, 2001- 2005............................................................ 115 Map 6: Coca cultivation by region in Colombia, 2001-2005 ............................................................... 117 Map 7: Coca cultivation density in the Meta-Guaviare region, Colombia 2005................................ 119 Map 8: Coca cultivation density in the Pacific region, Colombia 2005............................................. 121 Map 9: Coca cultivation density in the Central region, Colombia 2005 ............................................ 123 Map 10: Coca cultivation density in the Putumayo-Caqueta region, Colombia 2005.......................