Six-hectare cannabis farm destroyed in Brazil's Chapada Diamantina
On 20 February 2026 military and federal police in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, incinerated about 200,000 cannabis plants on six hectares with irrigation and solar power, seized one tonne of marijuana and estimated the plot could have yielded 66 tonnes. No one was arrested.
On Friday 20 February 2026 integrated military and federal police raided a farm at Brotas de
Macaúbas in Bahia’s Chapada Diamantina region.[1][2]g1 said nobody was arrested.[1]
The plantation covered about six hectares—roughly eight football pitches—with irrigation,
solar power and fertigation, according to g1 and Folha do Vale.[1][2]Officers seized one tonne of cannabis and incinerated about
200,000 plants on the spot.[1][2]The Military Police estimated the destroyed crop could
have produced about 66 tonnes of marijuana.[1][2]
g1 published a Military Police photograph of the plantation with its report.[1]
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The six-hectare plantation in the Chapada Diamantina, in the Military Police photograph g1 published.Photo details
g1g1.globo.comPTUma tonelada de maconha é apreendida em fazenda na Chapada Diamantina
Folha do Valefolhadovale.netPTOperação conjunta incinera 200 mil pés de maconha e apreende uma tonelada de droga em Brotas de Macaúbas
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Folha do Vale credited a Rondesp-Mo handout for its photograph; g1 carried separate Military Police images.
The 66-tonne figure is the Military Police estimate g1 reported; Folha do Vale also gave a street-value estimate in reais that this report does not repeat.
A separate Nexus Nordeste shootout and larger seizure followed on 22 February 2026 in the same municipality; this report covers only the 20 February farm raid.
The farm's exact coordinates within Brotas de Macaúbas are not named; the map uses the municipality centre.
Bahia military police eradicated a marijuana planting of about 19,000 plants in caatinga near Quipa in rural Juazeiro on 9 November 2026. Officers of the 74th CIPM/Rural destroyed the crop and sent samples to Juazeiro's drugs and narcotics station.
Bahia's Military Police, with the 25th Independent Military Police Company and the Bahia Civil Police, found and burned about 3,000 cannabis plants on a roughly one-hectare plantation in the Olho D'água district of rural Remanso. Officers seized about 17 kg of cannabis ready for use, seeds, scales, a pump, an air rifle, a phone and three motorcycles, and made no arrests.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 3,000Area 1 haCannabis 17 kg
Maranhão Civil Police destroyed about 45,000 cannabis plants in three rural plantations in Turiaçu on 5 November 2026, calling it the largest eradication in the municipality's history. No arrests were reported as investigations continue to identify those behind the crops.
Brazil's Federal Police uprooted about 20,000 cannabis plants and arrested three people on 4 November 2026 on four plots in the rural zone of Paes Landim, southern Piauí. The force estimated the destroyed crop could have produced about four tonnes of cannabis.
