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"We must stop confronting the farmers and turn them into our allies," said Eduardo Díaz, head of the new agency that will lead crop substitution efforts.

Despite the efforts of Colonel Santamaria's troops, the Colombian government has been unable to seize control of the trade, as farmers use increasingly remote jungle areas to cultivate cocaine crops at a rate hard to tackle with manual eradication and crop substitution efforts.

Now, administration officials said funding would rise most sharply of all for nonmilitary programs like crop-substitution efforts, strengthening human rights and economic development.

"The fumigation disturbs us a bit," said Juan Hugo Torres, an official of Plante, the Colombian government agency supervising crop-substitution efforts, who works with farmers here.

The agreement includes a Farc commitment to cut off all ties to the drug trade and a government promise to refocus its policies toward manual eradication, crop substitution programmes and voluntary eradication efforts.

He also drew closer to the United States in efforts to halt a growing cocaine industry, but he favored crop substitution and rural development over military efforts When tin prices collapsed, miners marched on La Paz in 1986, and Mr. Paz Estenssoro responded with authoritarian measures.

And Mr. Karzai had resisted those efforts, arguing that crop substitution and foreign aid to stimulate the economy would be more effective.

"In this case it wouldn't be about crop substitution but about substituting the use of the crops," García says.

That will come about, says the FARC, when current coca-eradication efforts are replaced by policies of crop substitution and social investment.

President Santos will be able to redouble efforts to curb the expanding cocaine trade, focusing on public health and crop substitution.

Successful crop substitution programs are one reason, but Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's policy of shooting down any drug plane flying over Peru has been a huge deterrent, as have stepped-up eradication efforts.