60,000 marijuana plants uprooted and burned in Tinglayan
Anti-drug teams raided a plantation in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga on 14 and 15 July 2025, uprooting about 60,000 fully grown marijuana plants from some 4,000 square metres of land. The plants were incinerated on site, and no cultivators were caught.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Cordillera regional intelligence and operations team, together with its regional special enforcement team and local police, raided a marijuana plantation in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 14 and 15 July 2025.[1]
The operation uprooted approximately 60,000 fully grown marijuana plants from an area of around 4,000 square metres.[1]All the plants were incinerated on site in line with established procedures.[1]No one engaged in the cultivation was caught during the operation.[1]
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Images from the Kalinga plantation eradication.Photo details
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.
