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� � | � Here is a summary of the increase in non-coca crops and value of alternative production in the Chapare In 1986, non-coca based agricultural products in the Chapare generated approximately two million dollars. Around that time, quality control, prices and road infrastructure did not facilitate to increase the prices that farmers craved for. Today, the story is different. Chapare farmers generated US$ 25.3 million through the commercialisation of six agricultural products, selling their products at farm-gate prices. In other words, during the last eleven years, the agricultural economy in the Chapare has increased by almost a thousand per cent. This increase is extraordinary taking into account the poor rural conditions of the Chapare. Alternative development has introduced the most important agricultural technical investigation, as well as the greatest national and international public investment process in rural Bolivia. It is important to point out that the alternative development process is part of the global anti-drugs fight, as an action directed at eliminating excess and illegal coca from the Cochabamba tropics. Furthermore, this process has assisted to generate economic growth in Bolivia. Equally it has helped to generate the Agricultural National Gross Product, as well as improving living standards for the inhabitants in this region. The Chapare economic and social transformation process started immediately after the approval of Law 1008, in July 1988. However, technical studies on the possibilities of alternative development in the Chapare had been carried out earlier. � |
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