Fumigation obviously is something that happens much faster than alternative development .
With no economic alternative, many of the coca farmers in southern Colombia who have been hit by aerial fumigation earlier this year are already replanting the drug crops. A group of Americans hold signs as they protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, March 22, 2001. Yes to public works. The campaign is ostensibly targeting large-scaled plantations. However, small farmers who have also been hit are complaining that food crops were killed alongside the coca, and that pledged alternative development aid has not arrived.