The Joint Services yesterday located and destroyed seven ganja farms at Hauraruni Creek in the Demerara River.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) in a statement said that it was present to witness the destruction of the fields which consisted of 10, 000 cannabis plants that were eight to nine feet in height.

GINA said that according to the Joint Services through recognizance exercises which included air surveillance done in the area and local knowledge, the decision was made to raid the area in search of cannabis fields. Seven fields which totalled about seven acres were discovered.

The statement said that the Joint Services also destroyed about 1600 dried cannabis plants and 1500 seedlings. A camp was also discovered and demolished during the raid while an unoccupied house was discovered in the vicinity of one of the farms. No one was arrested and similar operations across the country will be conducted in the near future.

GINA noted that on May 9 during another raid carried out by the police at Nabaclis and Golden Grove, ten kilogrammes of marijuana was found in an abandoned house. During the raid five houses, two of which were abandoned, were searched and the police had said that no one was arrested in the raids, the statement recalled.