IMPHAL, Nov 28: Security forces destroyed nearly 109 acres of illicit poppy cultivation in Manipur’s Kangpokpi and Senapati districts, police said on Friday.

Security forces in collaboration with forest department and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) destroyed approximately 103 acres of poppy cultivation at the hill ranges of Koubru and surrounding area in Kangpokpi district on Thursday, a police statement informed.

30 huts, 17 bags of fertilizers, 37 Herbicides packets, and other cultivation equipment found at the plantation sites were also destroyed, it said.

In another drive, nearly six acres of poppy cultivation were also destroyed at the hill range of Ngamju in Senapati district on Thursday, it added.

(By Our Correspondent)