2,880 marijuana plants destroyed at seven sites in Bakun and Kibungan
On 14 April 2026 Cordillera police and PDEA-Cordillera uprooted and burned 2,880 fully grown marijuana plants and about 10.3 kilograms of dried stalks and fruiting tops at seven plantations in Barangays Kayapa, Bakun and Badeo, Kibungan, which authorities valued at 1.81 million pesos. No cultivator was caught.
🇵🇭 Kayapa, Bakun and Badeo, Kibungan, Benguet · Philippines
On Monday 14 April 2026 anti-drug teams in the Cordillera uprooted and burned 2,880 fully
grown marijuana plants and about 10.3 kilograms of dried stalks, leaves and fruiting tops
at seven plantation sites in Benguet.[1]
Good Morning Baguio, citing the Police Regional Office Cordillera, said the Benguet sites
were in Barangay Kayapa in Bakun and Barangay Badeo in Kibungan and that the destroyed
drugs had a standard price of 1.81 million pesos.[1]Municipal police, provincial mobile
force companies, intelligence and drug-enforcement units and the Philippine Drug Enforcement
Agency in the Cordillera took part.[1]
SMNI News Channel reported the same 2,880-plant Benguet eradication on 14 April.[2]
All of the Benguet plants were destroyed on site and investigators were still looking for
those responsible.[1][2]No cultivator was caught.[1][2]
A PRO-CAR photograph published with the Good Morning Baguio story shows officers uprooting
and burning marijuana in the field on 14 April.[1]
The same regional operation day also included a separate 5,000-plant eradication in Kalinga
province, which is not part of this report.[1]
Photos and video
Eradication teams uproot and burn marijuana in a remote Cordillera area on 14 April 2026; photograph courtesy of PRO-CAR.Photo details
The Good Morning Baguio and SMNI reports also cover a separate 5,000-plant eradication in Kalinga and a buy-bust in Rizal on the same day; this report is limited to the Benguet plantations.
No cultivator was arrested at the Benguet sites.
The map marks Kayapa, Bakun; the seven plots are not geolocated individually.
Police confiscated 2,230 fully grown marijuana plants from three plantation sites in Kapangan, Benguet, which police valued at P446,000. The eradication was carried out separately by provincial operating units with no plantation arrests named.
Cordillera police destroyed 548,130 marijuana plants and 9,000 seedlings in 14 operations from 25 October to 1 November 2026, arresting six drug suspects. A parallel manhunt arrested 28 other fugitives, bringing the week's total reported arrests to 34.
Police destroyed three marijuana plantations in Kapangan and Kibungan, Benguet, on 30 October 2026, seizing 1,150 mature plants and 1,000 seedlings. Police valued the plants at P270,000 and burned them on site while seeking those responsible.
Kalinga police uprooted and burned 544,000 fully grown marijuana plants across seven sites in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October 2026, an operation the provincial office valued at about ₱108.8 million. No cultivators were arrested.
