The estimated area of coca bush cultivation decreased for the third consecutive year, from 49,800 ha in 2013 to 42,900 ha in 2014, a decrease of 13.9 per cent. The production of coca leaf dropped 17 per cent from 2013 to 2014. The results are in most part due to State-led eradication programmes in the context of the national strategy for the fight against drugs for the period 2012-2016. Interventions have focused on areas that are most notably connected to drug trafficking organizations and on intensifying alternative development initiatives in those areas.