82,700 marijuana plants uprooted across Kadavu in 15 months
Fiji police uprooted 82,700 marijuana plants across Kadavu province between January 2020 and March 2021, a haul the acting police commissioner said would cost close to $100 million. Announcing the total at the Kadavu Provincial Council meeting, Rusiate Tudravu said 12 police teams were deployed and urged chiefs and councillors to help eliminate cultivation.
The Fiji Police Force uprooted 82,700 marijuana plants from Kadavu province
between January 2020 and March 2021.[1]Acting Police Commissioner Rusiate
Tudravu said the haul would cost close to $100 million.[1]Police sent 12
teams to Kadavu during that period after more marijuana farms kept being
identified.[1]
Tudravu announced the total while opening the Kadavu Provincial Council meeting
in the past week.[1]The council meeting opened on March 24, 2021 in Tavuki
village, Kadavu.[1]Tudravu personally asked the council to help the police
with the drug-related issues the island has always faced.[1]He said the
council had always helped but asked them to take it up a notch and move forward
together against the drugs.[1]He said police would not spare any citizen
found in possession of the drugs or planting them.[1]He called on chiefs,
district representatives and provincial council members to help eliminate the
drug on the island.[1]
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More than 8,000 plants believed to be marijuana were uprooted from two farms in the Lea farming area of Cakaudrove. The joint Northern Division Taskforce, supported by Republic of Fiji Military Forces officers, found the farms this week while police separately seized suspected methamphetamine and cash in Laucala Beach.
Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
Northern Division police uprooted 2,371 suspected marijuana plants from two farms at Nanuca, Savusavu, on 19 October 2026. A 38-year-old farmer from Drekeniwai Village was arrested over the alleged cultivation.
Fiji Police uprooted more than 11,000 plants believed to be marijuana from a farming area in Nasuva, Cakaudrove, on 2 October 2026. The farm's owner has not been identified and police were still trying to locate them a week later; the plants were seized for analysis.
