RANKS from the Guyana Police Force’s Narcotics Branch, in collaboration with ranks from Regional Police Division #6, conducted another successful ‘Joint Narcotics Eradication Exercise’, on Wednesday, at Kuyorokuri Creek, Upper Berbice River.

More than $1 billion worth of cannabis found during the exercise was destroyed by fire, the police said in a statement.

It was noted that during the operation, ranks found an open savannah with six cannabis farms on 21 acres of land. The farms contained a combined total of approximately 118,000 cannabis plants ranging from two to seven feet in height.  Eight camps and ten drying areas were also discovered, which contained a combined total of 2,500 lbs of dried cannabis.

Additionally, several pieces of machinery/equipment were found on the farm: one tractor, seven tilling machines, one chainsaw, two generators, six weeding machines, three mistblowers, 16 spray cans and nine water pumps

Police said that cannabis plants, dried cannabis, camps, and drying areas were all destroyed by fire. The exercise was incident-free.

According to the statement the street value of the cannabis plants was $39,978, 400, while the dried cannabis was valued at $1,020,582,00. The total street value of the destroyed cannabis was $1,060,560,400.