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

The drive was carried out on Wednesday, it said.

Police said “a combined teams of state 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.”

7 makeshift huts, 11 bags of fertilizers, 23 bags of herbicides, 14 bags of salt, and equipment like Spray pumps, Pipes, Herbicides used in cultivation were also found and destroyed, it said.

(By Our Correspondent)