Uzbekistan’s Interior Ministry said officers kept more than 10,000 cannabis plants as material evidence during the first stage of Operation Qoradori-2025, the Black Poppy 2025 anti-drug drive, in May and June 2025.[1] The Uzbek edition of the same Interior Ministry account gives the cannabis total as more than 10,000 plants, against 173,300 opium poppy plants.[2] UzNews.uz reproduced the ministry’s figure of more than 10,000 cannabis plants seized over the two months.[3] Vzglyad.uz carried the same ministry count of more than 10,000 cannabis plants in its account of the operation.[4] Officers recorded 930 cases of cultivating drug-containing plants during the two months.[1] Helicopters found 50 illegal plantings in Fergana and Tashkent regions.[1] The ministry said the largest cultivation sites were in Altynkul district of Andijan region with 15,400 plants, Chust district of Namangan region with 6,783, Angren in Tashkent region with 4,840 and Pakhtachi district of Samarkand region with 3,263.[1] UzNews.uz and Vzglyad.uz gave the Altynkul district site as 15,362 plants, against the 15,400 in Gazeta.uz.[3]

The ministry reported 2,632 drug crimes during the first stage and said 2,805 criminal cases were opened as a result.[1] Officers seized 446.3 kg of narcotic substances in all during the first stage, a combined total that does not separate cannabis.[1] The same drive removed 2,068 drug graffiti advertising online drug shops.[1] The ministry said the second stage was planned for August and September, while a further anti-drug round under the Safe and Healthy Country campaign would run from 15 July to 15 August.[1] Gazeta.uz published the account on 11 July 2025.[1]