I can't switch crops.

Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop?

Mr. Siegfried explained that because farmers sometimes switch crops, "it was better not to hang things on specific crops."

Officials had hoped to combine lab raids with pressures on the peasants to switch crops.

Farmers farther south could switch crops; citrus fruits might replace field crops in Georgia, for example.

Soil conservation was poor, leaving farms to switch crops or abandon farms.

He said it was difficult to get financial aid for such programs because American officials felt that it was immoral to give money to coca farmers to help them switch crops.

The law reduces crop subsidies in increments until they no longer exist, after 2002, and gives farmers freedom to switch crops in response to market demand.

Crop substitution programs, which give coca-growing peasants economic incentives to switch crops, deserve expansion.

Farmers say they would prefer to switch crops and get away from the violence.