34,500 marijuana plants burned in a 2.3-hectare Kalinga plantation
PDEA and police teams uprooted and burned about 34,500 fully grown marijuana plants from a 2.3-hectare plantation in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, in a single day of operations on 27 June 2025. PDEA valued the destroyed plants at about P6.9 million, and no cultivator or caretaker was arrested.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency teams and police uprooted and burned
marijuana plants in a plantation in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 27
June 2025.[1]The operation was led by PDEA Cagayan Valley, with PDEA-Kalinga,
Kalinga police anti-drug enforcers, mobile groups and Tinglayan police as
support units.[1]The joint operation ran from 4:30 a.m. to 11:25 p.m. on 27
June.[2]
The teams uprooted about 34,500 fully grown marijuana plants and then burned the
2.3-hectare plantation.[1]PDEA put the destroyed plants at about 34,500
growing in some 2,300 square metres of land, with an estimated value of P6.9
million.[3]PDEA Region 2 said the destroyed plants were worth an estimated
P6.9 million.[2]
No cultivator or caretaker was arrested at the site.[1]Investigators were
still trying to establish who owned the plants.[1]
PDEA said the success of anti-drug operations depended on community cooperation
as well as the work of government agencies.[3]Saksi Ngayon reported that the
high-impact operation ran on 27 June and destroyed about 34,500 plants on 2,300
square metres.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
PDEA described the cleared land as 2,300 square metres, while the Inquirer gave 2.3 hectares; the hectare figure is recorded and the square-metre figure kept in the text.
Bombo Radyo Tuguegarao reported an almost P7 million value, rounded from PDEA's P6.9 million estimate.
No arrest, charge or follow-up identification of the cultivators was reported.
A separate 14-15 July 2025 PDEA-Cordillera operation in the same barangay destroyed 60,000 plants and is recorded separately.
The submitted Inquirer page's illustration is a file photo, so no photo of this operation is listed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Bombo Radyo Tuguegarao: The operation was led by the PDEA Region 2 Cagayan Provincial Office, with the police Drug Enforcement Group's Special Operations Unit in the Cordillera, the 2nd Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company, the Tinglayan municipal police and the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 2 as supporting units.
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.
