Huge ganja cultivation destroyed at Hauraruni

Ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch conducted a drug eradication exercise at Hauraruni, Upper Demerara River on Tuesday and unearthed fields of marijuana plants.

Police say that ten fields totalling about 15 acres in size were found with approximately 17,000 cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants ranging from 1-8 feet in height under cultivation, along with 25 nurseries with about 9,000 seedlings, and seven camps. They were destroyed.

No arrest has been made.