Manipur: Over 50 acres of illicit poppy cultivation destroyed

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IMPHAL, Jan 8: Security forces destroyed around 53 acres of illicit poppy cultivation in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district, police said on Thursday.

The drive was carried out on Wednesday, it said.

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“Combined teams of the police, CRPF, Forest Department and NCB destroyed 53 acres of poppy cultivation in the hill ranges of Moljol, Tusam, Vaichei-Naphai and surrounding areas in Kangpokpi district,” an official statement said.

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Several makeshift huts, bags of fertilisers and herbicides, and equipment used in the illegal cultivation have been recovered from these areas, it added. (PTI)

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