{"id":277607,"date":"2026-02-06T00:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=277607"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:42:03","slug":"poppy-fields-destroyed-in-lazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/poppy-fields-destroyed-in-lazu\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy fields destroyed in Lazu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LAZU, 5 Feb:<\/strong> In a major crackdown on illegal narcotic cultivation, the Tirap district administration on Tuesday carried out a massive drive to destroy illegally cultivated poppy fields in Lazu circle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The operation was led by Assistant Commissioner NL Naam and Tax, Excise &amp; Narcotics Superintendent Monika Lowang, under the supervision of the district magistrate, in coordination with the Tirap police and the tax &amp; excise department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 63 personnel were deployed for the operation, during which approximately approximately 15.296 acres of poppy fields were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drive was part of the district administration&#8217;s sustained efforts to curb illegal opium cultivation and address the growing menace of drug abuse in the region. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAZU, 5 Feb: In a major crackdown on illegal narcotic cultivation, the Tirap district administration on Tuesday carried out a massive drive to destroy illegally cultivated poppy fields in Lazu circle. The operation was led by Assistant Commissioner NL Naam and Tax, Excise &amp; Narcotics Superintendent Monika Lowang, under the supervision of the district magistrate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277609,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277607\/revisions\/277609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}