PNP destroys about 94,918 marijuana plants in Cordillera campaign
The Philippine National Police reported 22 eradication operations across the Cordillera from 13 to 19 April 2026. The campaign uprooted about 94,918 marijuana plants, seized 56.6 kilograms of dried material and was valued at about PHP25.7 million.
🇵🇭 Benguet, Mountain Province and Kalinga, Cordillera Administrative Region · Philippines
The Philippine National Police reported 22 marijuana eradication operations across the Cordillera Administrative Region from 13 to 19 April 2026.[1][2]The operations uprooted around 94,918 fully grown marijuana plants and seized about 56.6 kilograms of dried marijuana.[1][2]
Benguet accounted for 17 operations and 14,418 plants valued at PHP9.68 million.[2]A Mountain Province operation accounted for 60,000 plants valued at PHP12 million, while four Kalinga operations destroyed 20,500 plants valued at PHP4.1 million.[2]The PNP reported the campaign’s combined value as about PHP25.7 million.[1][2]
Case data
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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.
