Security forces destroyed nearly 35 acres of illegal poppy cultivation in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district, police said on Tuesday.“A combined team of Manipur police, CRPF, forest department, and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) conducted the operation in the hill ranges of Langkhong (Saisijang), Kangpokpi district,” police said.Twelve huts, 13 bags of fertilizers, 19 roundup herbicides, 16 bags of salt, and equipment like spray pumps, Pipes, Herbicides etc. used in cultivation were also destroyed during the operation.The State government had previously issued warnings against people engaged in widespread poppy planting, which caused the clearance of vegetation in hilly areas and the devastation of the ecosystem of the hills.
Security forces destroy 35 acres of poppy cultivation in Manipur
