310,100 cannabis plants burned in three-day Tinglayan eradication
Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives uprooted and burned about 310,100 fully grown cannabis plants in Barangays Buscalan, Butbut Proper and Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga, from 24 to 26 June 2022, valuing them at P62 million. No cultivator was arrested.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents, Tinglayan municipal police and other
local anti-drug operatives uprooted about 310,100 fully grown marijuana plants
in Tinglayan, Kalinga, over three days from 24 to 26 June 2022 and burned them.[1]Police valued the uprooted plants at P62 million at the standard drug
price.[1]
The plantations were found in Barangays Buscalan, Butbut Proper and Loccong in
Tinglayan town and covered a combined 25,950 square metres (about 2.6 hectares).[1]No suspect or cultivator was arrested during the operations.[1]The
Philippine Star reported that the raids began at about 5:30 a.m. on Friday 24
June and ended on Sunday afternoon, 26 June.[2]GMA News reported the
destroyed plants as about 310,000 on 26,000 square metres of land.[3]
Police officer-in-charge Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. said the operations were
meant to hunt down those behind the planting and cultivation of the plants.[1]
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Inquirer says the operation covered four barangays but names only Buscalan, Butbut Proper and Loccong; it also places Loccong in 'Tinglaya', a village in Pasil, not in Tinglayan.
GMA News gives about 310,000 plants on 26,000 square metres while the Inquirer gives 310,100 on 25,950 square metres; the report keeps the Inquirer's figures.
The Inquirer page describes the site as 'Kalinga, Benguet province'; Kalinga is a separate province from Benguet, and Tinglayan is in Kalinga.
No charges, follow-up investigation results or identification of cultivators or landowners were reported.
The PNP Public Information Office's own Facebook statement could not be opened and the Manila Bulletin account could not be accessed, so the police statement is known only through the three news reports cited.
The article also mentions a separate Benguet eradication worth P848,000 earlier in June 2022; that is a different event and is not covered here.
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.
