Police destroy $570M worth of ganja along Berbice River
As police continue their eradication exercise, more than $570 million worth of ganja has been destroyed at Wiruni and Kaiwa, communities along the Upper Berbice River, over the weekend.
Police have said that ranks travelled to Wiruni on Friday and discovered two cannabis farms. The first farm was about 20 acres big, and had a makeshift camp and drying area where about 1200 lbs of dried cannabis, which has a street value of over $489 million, were found.
The second farm was about 10 acres big, a
The marijuana that was destroyed during the police exercise
nd had about 150,000 plants ranging in height from six to eight feet. The estimated cost of these plants is in excess of $50.8 million.
Ranks carried out another exercise on Saturday at Kaiwa, where another two cannabis farms were discovered and destroyed.
The first farm was about five acres in size, and had approximately 1,000 seedlings on several beds. In addition, 35,000 seedlings were found in a nearby nursery. This farm also had a large camp which had about 34.019 kilograms of dried cannabis, which has a street value of over $30.6 million.
The other farm, located about 100 feet away from the first one, was about two acres in size, and had about 2,000 plants ranging in height from eight inches to four feet. The estimated weight of these plants was 2200 kilograms, which has an estimated street value of $338,800,000.
Both farms, nurseries and narcotics were destroyed. At the time of the operation, no one was seen, thus no one was arrested.
About a month ago, a Police narcotics eradication exercise had led to the discovery of more than $151 million worth of marijuana at Ebini Backdam, a Region 10 community situated in the upper reaches of the Berbice River.
