Police on Friday morning conducted an eradication exercise Coomacka Mines Upper-Demerara River on two farms measuring about six acres with approximately eighteen thousand (18,000) cannabis sativa plants ranging from 5 inches to 4 feet in height.
These were discovered along with two make shift camps, one drying area with about eight pounds of dried cannabis sativa and three nursery areas consisting of five thousand cups of cannabis sative seedlings.
The estimated weight of the cannabis plants are 39,600 pounds.
The camps and the cannabis plants were destroyed by means of fire. No arrest made.
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