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|date=2021-12-27
|category=Policy
|title=New Takeo police chief vows to eliminate all marijuana plantations
|summary=New Takeo Provincial Police chief Major General Chheang Phannara, one month into his tenure, pledged to end the marijuana industry in Takeo. He noted that both locals and outsiders come to plant cannabis in the mountains. In his first month, 500 square metres of plantations were destroyed and growers sent to court. Kirivong district police chief Colonel Yuk Sarath provided 2021 annual totals: 250 kg fresh marijuana and nearly 6 tonnes dried marijuana seized; plantations burned at 174 locations; 107 illegal reservoirs destroyed.
|source=https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50995390/takeo-police-chief-vows-war-on-weed/
|part_of_campaign=Cambodia eradication campaigns (2021)
|country=Cambodia
|admin1=Takeo
|admin2=Kirivong
|coordinates=10.6441, 104.8715
|growing_region=Southern Cambodia
|growing_area=Kirivong
|agency=Takeo Provincial Police; Kirivong District Police
}}