West Tripura (appellation)
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| West Tripura | |
|---|---|
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Gene Pool | South Asian Gene Pool |
| Growing Region | Indo-Burman Range |
| Growing Area | Tripura Hills |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Tripura |
| District | West Tripura District |
| Coordinates | 23.89, 91.39 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 920 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately West Tripura District, on the Bangladesh border; jungle plots at Arakata |
| Growing history | |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
West Tripura is a landrace cannabis appellation in the Tripura Hills growing area of the Indo-Burman Range, in West Tripura District of Tripura, in north-east India, on the state's border with Bangladesh. Police have destroyed cannabis plots under the Sidhai police station, in the district's Mohanpur subdivision, and in the Simna area: 14 jungle plots at Arakata in December 2023,[1] about 60,000 plants around Simna the same week[2] and ten plots at Urabari in September 2026.[3]
Geography
West Tripura District is bounded by Bangladesh to the north and west, by Khowai District to the east and by Sepahijala District to the south. Its area shrank to 983.63 km² when four new districts were created in the state; it has three subdivisions, Sadar, Mohanpur and Jirania, and 14 police stations, and its 77.86 km of international border is guarded by 24 border outposts of the Border Security Force.[4][5] The district headquarters, at Agartala, is also the state capital, and about 54 per cent of the district's people live in towns. The rural part of the district lives mainly from agriculture, chiefly paddy, and the district has 19 tea estates.[4]
History
The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–94 heard several witnesses on cultivation in Hill Tippera, the princely state of Tripura. It found the cultivation to be "of the ruder sort, the seed of the wild plant being often used"; a local officer put the crop at a few seers, and the state's memorandum said that hemp was not cultivated there.[6]
Cultivation
At Arakata, under the Sidhai police station, the police, the Border Security Force, the Central Reserve Police Force, the Narcotics Control Bureau and forest officials destroyed 40,000 to 45,000 plants in 14 plots in December 2023; the officer in charge at Sidhai said the plots "were inside the jungle".[1] In the Simna area the same month the police, with other security agencies, destroyed about 60,000 plants; a video released by the Press Trust of India showed hundreds of plants grown in a fenced area being destroyed.[2] On 15 September 2026 the Mohanpur subdivisional police and the Border Security Force cleared about 80,000 plants at Urabari, in the Noagaon village committee under the Sidhai police station: about 50,000 in two plots and about 30,000 in eight others.[3]
Enforcement
The Simna operation was part of a statewide crackdown on cannabis cultivation launched shortly before.[2] On the way back from the Simna operation, locals stopped the police party, damaged four police vehicles and injured four policemen.[2][7] The West Tripura superintendent of police, Kiran Kumar, appealed to the public to cooperate with the police instead of resisting them.[7] The 2023 operations are listed at Tripura eradication campaigns (2023).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Northeast Live Digital Desk (17 December 2023). "Tripura's War on Drugs: Marijuana cultivation in forest lands destroyed". Northeast Live. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Watch: Marijuana farm destroyed by Tripura Police, locals ambush them". The Week. 15 December 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dey, Abhishek (15 September 2026). "Mohanpur police destroy 80,000 cannabis plants in joint drive". Tripura Chronicle. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 West Tripura District Administration. "History". West Tripura District, Government of Tripura. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ West Tripura District Administration. "About District". West Tripura District, Government of Tripura. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. IV, "Extent of cultivation, and its tendency to increase or decrease", paras. 96–100, pp. 37–39 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Northeast Live Digital Desk (15 December 2023). "4 Tripura cops injured in attack after cannabis plantation destroyed in West Tripura". Northeast Live. Retrieved 19 October 2026.