Two brothers have each been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for planting marijuana.

Thirty-one -year old Joseva Vonokula and 20-year-old Iliavi Sauledeci pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful cultivation of illicit drugs.

The brothers told the Lautoka High Court that they had planted cultivated marijuana in the Highlands of Navosa for commercial purpose.

Police uprooted 329 plants weighing about 11-kilogrammes from two different places.