Mexican soldiers on Thursday seized more than 15 tons of methamphetamines and other substances used to manufacture illegal drugs from a farm in western Mexico, officials said.
The confiscated drugs represent the biggest seizure in the country's more than five-year war against drug cartels, according to the Mexican army.
The operation resulted from an inspection of the farm by army troops in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, where police report the Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels have been active recently.
The drug bust came shortly after the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported Mexican cartels increasingly are producing synthetic drugs instead of cocaine.
General Gilberto Hernandez, commander of Mexico's 15th Army Military Zone, called the drug seizure "historic" during a press conference, where he showed the seized items to the media.
Authorities did not say which cartel owned the laboratory where the drugs and supplies were seized. No arrests were reported.
