More than 200,000 cannabis plants destroyed in rural Barro Alto, Bahia
Bahia military police destroyed more than 200,000 cannabis plants on a 3.8-hectare plantation in the rural area of Barro Alto, found with the help of drones and worked on 28 and 29 November 2025. Officers found a large stock of dried cannabis that was burned after expert examination, and the police said those responsible had been located but did not say whether anyone was arrested.
Military police destroyed more than 200,000 cannabis plants on a plantation in
the rural area of Barro Alto, a municipality about 505 km from Salvador, the
Bahia state capital.[1][2]The plantation was found and mapped by the
intelligence section of the Polícia Militar, Bahia’s uniformed state military
police, with the help of drones.[1][2]Officers pulled up the plants and
destroyed them on the spot.[1][2]The police said the people responsible for the
plantation had been located, but did not say how many were found or whether any
were in custody.[1][2]
The plantation covered 3.8 hectares and was worked during actions on 28 and 29
November by the Cipe Semiárido, the state military police’s specialised
semi-arid policing company, backed by the 7th Military Police Battalion of Irecê
and a mechanical excavator.[3]Besides the destroyed plants, officers found a
large amount of dried cannabis, which was burned after examination by the state
technical police (DPT).[3]Samples were taken to the flagrant-crimes centre of
the 14th Coorpin, the regional interior police coordination for Irecê, with five
cannabis plants, 32 kg of cannabis drying, farm tools, fertiliser, a submersible
pump and a container of gunpowder.[3]At the site police found solar panels,
an irrigation system of hoses and pipes, an artesian well with a pump, water
tanks and the huts used by the growers, but no one was located.[3]
Bahia Notícias reproduced the same military police statement, which likewise
gave no area, weight, number of people found or custody outcome.[4]Portal do
Cerrado reported that the military police said those responsible for the
plantation had been located but would not say how many people were found or
whether any arrests were made.[5]
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The cannabis plantation in the rural area of Barro Alto, published by G1 with the report on its destruction. Photo: Cipe SemiáridoPhoto details
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Source: G1A second view of the cannabis plantation destroyed in rural Barro Alto, published by G1. Photo: Cipe SemiáridoPhoto details
The reports give no date separate from the two action days: the g1 report was published on 29 November 2025 and Folhapress says the actions ran on 28 and 29 November, so both days are recorded.
The plant count is stated only as 'more than 200,000', not an exact figure.
A Folhapress text republished by TNH1 and Acessa.com puts the ready cannabis destroyed at 1,100 kg and the material in dehydration presented at the police station at 32 kg, but does not reconcile the two or say exactly which products the weights cover, so no cannabis weight is recorded as a figure here.
The police said those responsible for the plantation were located but did not say how many people were found, whether anyone was detained or charged, or what became of them.
No value estimate for the plants or the dried cannabis was published.
The exact location of the plantation within rural Barro Alto was not published; the coordinates are those of Barro Alto town, which the reports place about 505 km from Salvador.
The g1 page, Bahia Notícias and Portal do Cerrado reproduce the same military police statement, so they are not independent; the only account giving area and weights is the Folhapress report, read through TNH1 and Acessa.com because the UOL copy could not be opened.
The Folhapress text says the plantation was found 'antegontem' relative to a 30 November publication, which conflicts with its own statement that the actions ran on 28 and 29 November.
The two G1 photographs are both credited to Cipe Semiárido; their captions repeat the headline and do not describe the scenes separately, though they are published with this report.
The text gives a weight ("32 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
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Arrested 0Plants destroyed 3,000Area 1 haCannabis 17 kg
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