11.6 million marijuana plants destroyed on Mount Chumanchil
Anti-drug authorities destroyed 11,605,250 marijuana plants worth about 2.25 billion pesos at 18 sites covering 16.27 hectares on Mount Chumanchil in Tinglayan, Kalinga from 5 to 8 August 2016. No arrests were reported, and officers said up to 80 hectares of plantations remained on the mountain.
🇵🇭 Mount Chumanchil, Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga · Philippines
Anti-drug authorities destroyed 11,605,250 fully grown marijuana plants at 18 plantation sites on Mount Chumanchil in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga from 5 to 8 August 2016.[1]The sites covered 16.2655 hectares, and the plants were valued at about 2.25 billion pesos, the biggest eradication haul in the Cordillera highlands that year.[1]Officers also recovered 220,000 grams of dried marijuana leaves and 45,000 grams of seedlings during the campaign.[1]
Juvenal Azurin, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Cordillera director, said the mountain held illicit plantations that could reach 80 hectares in total.[1]Kalinga governor Jocel Baac confirmed the spread of plantations around Loccong but pointed to poor roads, irrigation and livelihoods, saying villagers had grown marijuana there since the time of President Fidel Ramos.[1]Officers found small makeshift huts at the sites, indicating the plots were deliberately tended.[1]
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