{"id":61476,"date":"2025-03-09T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/andhra-ganja-growers-turn-to-mixed-farming-to-avoid-satellite-surveillance-impacting-drug-production-levels\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:21:07","slug":"andhra-ganja-growers-turn-to-mixed-farming-to-avoid-satellite-surveillance-impacting-drug-production-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/andhra-ganja-growers-turn-to-mixed-farming-to-avoid-satellite-surveillance-impacting-drug-production-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Andhra ganja growers turn to mixed farming to avoid satellite surveillance, impacting drug production levels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ganja growers in Andhra Pradesh are resorting to mixed farming techniques to avoid detection by law enforcement, particularly satellite surveillance, resulting in a decline in ganja cultivation. Efforts to tackle drug trafficking have intensified through inter-state coordination meetings, focusing on strategies like mixed farming and sharing intelligence. The Konark Express train route has been identified as a key transit point for drug smuggling activities, prompting authorities to step up monitoring and enforcement measures. By diversifying their crops, ganja cultivators are attempting to circumvent the scrutiny of law enforcement agencies and satellite technology. The collaboration between states is crucial in combating the illegal drug trade and disrupting the supply chain. Authorities are ramping up efforts to crack down on drug trafficking networks and prevent the misuse of transportation routes for illegal activities. Through a combination of surveillance, intelligence-sharing, and targeted interventions, law enforcement agencies aim to curb the production and distribution of drugs like ganja in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ganja growers in Andhra Pradesh are resorting to mixed farming techniques to avoid detection by law enforcement, particularly satellite surveillance, resulting in a decline in ganja cultivation. Efforts to tackle drug trafficking have intensified through inter-state coordination meetings, focusing on strategies like mixed farming and sharing intelligence. The Konark Express train route has been identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":61477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118813524imgsize-1587852.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}