Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 7,500 acres of coca are grown by Colombian farmers. Until 1980, José Antonio Monroy, 50, grew corn on his ten acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste...
...American farmers, more has become less. Record harvests of corn and wheat in 1981 and 1982 have created a glut of grain. The unsold carryover of last year's corn surplus alone is an estimated 3.4 billion bu. Even as supply ballooned, however, markets shrank. In 1982, a strong dollar and world recession caused a major decline in farm exports for the first time in 13 years. Farm debt has burgeoned, from $140.8 billion in 1979 to about $215 billion at the start of 1983, while net income fell from $32.4 billion in 1979 to $19.5 billion...
...grain for idling large tracts of productive land. The program, hastily cobbled together to prop up the flagging farm economy, has prompted a response that was, said Agriculture Secretary John Block, "beyond my wildest expectations." Figures announced last week show that farmers will remove 82.3 million acres of wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, barley, oats and rice land from production in 1983. This amounts to roughly one-third of the land eligible for the program, an area equivalent in square miles to Iowa, Illinois and half of Indiana...
...Agriculture, 1.2 million of the 2.3 million farms eligible have enrolled in the acreage-reduction program. This overwhelming response means that, of a total of 230.4 million eligible acres, farmers this year will not harvest 32.1 million acres of wheat (35% of eligible land), 39.5 million acres of corn and sorghum (39%), 1.7 million acres of rice (43%), 6.8 million acres of cotton (44%) and 2.3 million acres of barley and oats (12%). As a result, surpluses will begin to shrink. This year's corn crop, predicts the USDA, will be only 5.6 billion bu., far below last year...
...biggest chain is called Corn Poppers, run by Charlie Bird, 54, of Dallas, who has five stores and 35 franchised outlets operating and 35 more set to open this year. He produces 60 flavors but allows his stores to sell only 32, the selection depending on location. Why 32? "There is usually a Baskin-Robbins around with 31 flavors of ice cream," says Bird. "When you're the new guy on the block, you've got to go the other fellow one better." Klugman plans to get his soft corn into the theaters. As the saying goes, without...