And Seed Nilphamari Correspondent: Farmers are busy cultivating boro in Nilphamari. Saplings are being planted in the land including irrigation, plowing, fertilizer application and lifting. Apart from the agriculture department, boro planting is in full swing in 12 upazilas of three districts under the Teesta Irrigation Project. Rangpur Municipal Circle-2 supervising engineer. Mahbubur Rahman said boro is being planted at Nilphamari Sadar, Dimla, Jaldhaka, Kishoreganj, Syedpur, Rangpur Sadar, Badarganj, Taraganj, Gangachara, Parbatipur and Khansamao Chiri ports. Under the country's largest Teesta Barrage project, boro cultivation has been targeted at 53,000 hectares of land. Of these, 31,000 hectares are in Nilphamari, 15,000 hectares in Rangpur and 7,000 hectares in Dinajpur. It has been seen on the spot that farmers are preparing land for boro paddy cultivation. Someone is planting saplings again. Many are plowing the land. Applying organic manure including weeding of land isle. Again many people soak the land with water. According to the office of the Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension, this time the target for boro cultivation in five districts of Rangpur region has been set at five lakh three thousand 550 hectares. Last year the target was four lakh 97