The National Company of the Coca (Spanish: ''Empresa Nacional de la Coca'', ENACO) is a
Peruvian
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state company dedicated to the commercialization of the
coca leaf and derivatives. It is the only state company that has a monopoly on the commercialization and derivatives of the coca leaf. It was created in 1949. In 1982, it became a state company under private law.
It has a list of 31,000 legal producers of coca leaf in Peru, who export between 130,000 and 150,000 kilos of coca leaves annually directly to the
Stepan Company. The Stepan Company extracts the cocaine for
medicinal use. In 2002, a company called Kokka Royal Food & Drink began selling KDrink, which is a coca leaf-infused energy drink, similar to
Coca Colla in
Bolivia
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.
Nonetheless, much of this cocaine enters the black market. In 2023, one estimate was 90%.
The operation of the company is specified in Law 22095.
See also
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Coca Colla
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Legal status of cocaine
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Stepan Company
External links
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References
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Coca
Government-owned companies of Peru
Peruvian companies established in 1949
Commercialization of traditional medicines
Drugs in Peru