By Freddie Lazaro
KIBUNGAN, Benguet – Some P13.38 million worth of marijuana plants were recently destroyed in an eradication campaign launched by joint operatives from different law enforcement agencies in Cordillera.
Chief Insp. Edgar Apalla, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera officer-in-charge, said the operation raided 1.26 hectares of marijuana plantations in the boundary of Kibungan and Bakun in Benguet.
“Based on the standard set by the Dangerous Drug Board, the estimated worth of the destroyed marijuana plants were the following – P11.44 million of fully-grown marijuana plants uprooted; and P1.94 million of the destroyed marijuana seedlings.”
After the operation, the bulk of the marijuna plants were burned at the plantation sites in the presence of local barangay officials.
Only bundles of uprooted fully-grown marijuana plants were taken back to the PDEA-Cordillera office for documentation and disposal.
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