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To: TobagoJack who wrote (37453)	7/21/2008 5:45:02 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217618

Food rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice. Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. Bolivian President Evo Morales, once the leader of a powerful coca growers' union, is now asking coca farmers to supplement their crops with rice and corn as a way of holding down coca production while helping to feed South America's poorest country. ap.google.com