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Edo treats the four local government areas of Edo State that border Ondo State (Owan West, Owan East, Ovia North-East and Ovia South-West) as a cannabis growing area: the farms reported in their forests since 2023, the state's place in the national surveys and the growing practice the survey describes there. The state as a whole is a separate subject, at Edo State; so are the Edo people and their language. The wider region is treated at South-western Nigeria.

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Discussion

Why Edo is a growing area

The UNODC and NDLEA cannabis survey (2019 data, published 2022) found the highest density of cultivation in Edo and Ondo and the densest fields along the border between the two states (pp. 6, 10). It names the banks of the Owan and Osun rivers as places of dry-season growing in Edo (p. 26).
The NDLEA's statements name the forests where it destroyed farms in the four local government areas: Awakpa (Owan West, 2023), Utese (Ovia North-East, 2023), Ohosu/Ugbogui (Ovia South-West, 2024), Ukaro, Ogboha and Ukporwoya (Owan West, 2026), Igwe-Oke (Owan East, 2026) and Monday Camp in Usen forest (Ovia South-West, 2026). The Uzebba/Avbiosi forest (2024) is not placed in a local government area by the statement.
The NDLEA's annual reports give farmland destroyed in Edo State for 2021, 2023 and 2025, and the report for 2023 names Edo among the four states with the largest concentrations of plantations (p. 54).

Extent and border

The map border is approximate. It is drawn on the four local government areas as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relations 3717137, 3717136, 3717134 and 3717135), about 7,060 km², the figure in the infobox. All four border Ondo State, so together they make up the Edo side of the border on which the survey found its densest fields.
The line follows these four local government areas, each for a farm the NDLEA reports destroying there: Owan West, Awakpa forest (News Agency of Nigeria in Peoples Gazette, 18 June 2023) and Ukaro forest (The Sun, 26 August 2026); Owan East, Igwe-Oke forest (New Telegraph, 14 September 2026); Ovia North-East, Utese forest (News Agency of Nigeria in Peoples Gazette, 23 July 2023); Ovia South-West, Ohosu/Ugbogui forest (NDLEA statement, 24 March 2024) and Monday Camp in Usen forest (New Telegraph, 14 September 2026).
Farms the NDLEA reports elsewhere in the state, at Ugboku in Orhionmwon (2026) and at Illushi in Esan South-East (2026), lie outside the border; they fall in the growing region, and the region's page names them.
The state figures in the annual reports cover all of Edo State, not only these four local government areas; the article gives them as the state's.
The infobox point (6.63, 5.56) is the centre of the border polygon, not a farm.

Growing status

The status is Active: the NDLEA reports destroying farms in Owan West, Owan East and Ovia South-West in August and September 2026. No source says that growing has stopped.

Sources

UNODC, Nigeria Cannabis Survey (2022). Page numbers are the printed ones. The survey gives no area estimate for each state.
June 2023 (Awakpa forest). The NDLEA statement as carried by the News Agency of Nigeria in Peoples Gazette. It also mentions a second farm of 1.294 hectares without saying where it was; that farm is not used.
July 2023 (Utese forest). The Peoples Gazette copy of the News Agency of Nigeria report gives the sizes of the two farms; the copy in The Guardian (Lagos) gives the arrest and the 640 kilograms but not the farms.
March 2024. The NDLEA's own statement of 24 March 2024. A warehouse holding 5,000 kilograms in Okpuje forest, Owan West, in the same statement is not used as evidence of growing.
September 2026. New Telegraph (14 September) and Daily Post (8 October) carry the command's figures. The farm in Owan West that New Telegraph places in Ogboha forest and Daily Post in "Okagboro Forest" has the same size in both (0.336646 hectares) and is taken to be one farm; the other four farms New Telegraph lists also reappear in the September figures.
Sizes in hectares are given to two decimal places; the statements give up to six.

Sources not used

Seizures of cannabis in Owan East with no farm reported (a car stopped at Otuo, and raids at Warake, Ivhiaro and Ewe/Irue, both October 2026) are not used as evidence of growing.