Police destroy 7 tonnes of wild cannabis in Osh Region
Police destroyed 7 tonnes of wild cannabis across 4 sotki (0.04 hectare) and 3.5 hectares in the Kara-Suu and Nookat districts of Osh Region during an eradication campaign reported on 10 July 2026. The reports do not assign each area to a named district.
🇰🇬 Kara-Suu and Nookat districts, Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan
Reports published on 10 July 2026 said that police in Osh Region had destroyed
7 tonnes of wild cannabis in the Kara-Suu and Nookat districts.[1][2]The
reported areas were 4 sotki (0.04 hectare) and 3.5 hectares, a combined 3.54
hectares.[1][2]
The same account said that eradication work was also taking place in Osh city,
including the Manas-Ata microdistrict and the Jalapalak and Kyzyl-Kyshtak
territorial administrations, but gave no quantity for that work.[1] Those
unquantified activities are not included in the reported 7-tonne figure.
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Area
3.5 ha
Cannabis
7 t
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (7 t)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Forest or wild land
Grown
Wild
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
open.kgopen.kgRUНа юге Кыргызстана продолжают уничтожать дикорастущую коноплю
news.net.kgnews.net.kgKYКыргызстандын түштүгүндө жабайы өскөн каннабисти жок кылуу иштери уланууда
Open questions the AI reported
The reports give the combined area as 4 sotki and 3.5 hectares but do not say which district corresponds to which area. [@1,2]
The reports give a publication date rather than a separate date for the field work. [@1,2]
Jumgal district police, Naryn regional drug police and Min-Kush rural officials mowed and burned about 2.5 tonnes of wild cannabis on roughly 2 hectares at Marinka and Kindik. The operation was part of the Kara Kuura campaign.
Kyrgyz police said they mowed and burned more than two tonnes of wild cannabis in Osh Region during the second stage of the Kara Kuurai operation, which ran from 3 to 8 August 2026. The reports say officers searched about three hectares and planned to continue checks for wild plants on land, fields and homesteads.
Police in Jumgal district, Naryn Region, burned about 2 tonnes of wild-growing cannabis in a destruction campaign reported on 16 July 2026. The regional police department said the plants were found on the district's territory; no arrests were reported.
Kemin District police cut and burned about 1 tonne of wild cannabis across 0.5 hectare in the Chon-Kemin rural district of Chüy Region on 13 July 2026. Kabar reported the work as part of the Chüy regional police’s “Cannabis-2026” campaign.
