450,000 marijuana plants burned in Tinglayan, Kalinga
Police and soldiers uprooted about 450,000 fully grown marijuana plants on Mt Bitolayongan in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 26 April 2007, burning plants officials valued at P90 million. It finished a campaign that had already destroyed P21 million worth of plants in March.
Police and soldiers uprooted about 450,000 fully grown marijuana plants on Mt
Bitolayongan in Loccong village, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 26 April 2007, burning
plants that officials valued at P90 million.[1]The plantation covered about
15,000 square metres, and the eradication was run by the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency in Cordillera together with military troops.[1]
PDEA Cordillera director Superintendent Oliver Enmodias said the team returned
by military helicopter to finish an operation that had begun a month earlier.[1]A first joint operation from 15 to 27 March had destroyed P21 million
worth of cannabis in the same area, but troops came under gunfire and
commanders judged the growers were holding high-powered firearms, so the team
withdrew without reaching targets on the far side of the mountain.[1]
The March phase had already eradicated 100,000 fully grown plants on nearby Mt
Kasablotan, where officers found a one-hectare plantation on 16 March and
recovered about 50 kilograms of dried leaves without arresting any cultivator.[2]Enmodias said the drive was part of Oplan Green Gold-Cordillera, launched
after seizures of dried marijuana bricks in Tabuk, and that Tinglayan’s mayor
had answered it with a plan to plant 500 hectares of Arabica coffee, with
12,000 seedlings already distributed to farmers.[2]
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The original Sun.Star pages are offline; both articles were read as contemporaneous forum reprints that name Sun.Star as their source.
No arrests were reported in either the March or the April operation.
No photograph of the eradication with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
The March operation is described as P21 million worth destroyed in one account and 100,000 plants worth P21.25 million in the other; this report treats those as the same phase.
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.
