37,200 marijuana plants uprooted and burned in Tinglayan communal forest
Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned about 37,200 fully grown marijuana plants in four plantations in Buscalan and Butbut, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 29 and 30 April 2023. Police valued the plants at about P7.4 million, said they were grown on communal forest land, and made no arrests.
🇵🇭 Barangays Buscalan and Butbut, Tinglayan, Kalinga · Philippines
Police and anti-drug agents uprooted and burned about 37,200 fully grown
marijuana plants in four plantations in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 29 and 30 April
2023.[1]Police valued the destroyed plants at about 7.4 million pesos, the
standard value officials put on the crop.[1]Police Captain Ruff Manganip, the
Kalinga police information officer, said about 22,500 of the plants were found
in two plantations in Barangay Buscalan.[1]A further 14,700 fully grown
plants were discovered in two plantations in Barangay Butbut, giving 37,200
plants in all.[1]
Manganip said the plants had been grown on public land that is treated as a
communal forest.[1]Police said they were still investigating who cultivated
the plants, and no caretakers were arrested.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only the Kalinga police statement as reported by INQUIRER.net could be opened; no second independent account of the same four plantations was found.
The article gives no area cleared for any of the four plantations, so no hectares figure is recorded.
The 37,200-plant total is the sum of the article's 22,500 Buscalan plants and 14,700 Butbut plants; the P7.4 million valuation applies to the four sites together.
Politiko North Luzon reported a 27 April operation in Buscalan with 22,500 plants worth P4.5 million; its P4.5 million valuation does not match the P7.4 million total, so it is not used here and may be a separate, earlier step.
No suspects were named or charged; the police said they were still investigating who cultivated the plants.
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.
