Peru. Andean populations created these characteristic agricultural terraces on the hillsides. The Inca system for growing and harvesting coca leaves involved many steps. The plants were grown in ...

Peru has temporarily halted the eradication ... including many in the jungle valleys where coca is grown.

They were forced to to grow coca leaves. They didn't want to do the ... When I’d go visit my family in Peru, I'd always go visit farmers and check the cacao. I was really into it.

Bolivia and Peru have defended the continued, traditional use of coca leaves which have been chewed by indigenous populations for centuries, after they were criticized by a UN drugs agency report.