Boro is a winter season, photo-insensitive, transplanted rice cultivated under low laying residual soil moisture condition with supplemental irrigation. This gives the farmers a chance to grow a rabi season crop which normally they could not grow. This practice is emerging as a new cropping system by its spreading even to those non-traditional areas where irrigation is available.

Boro rice is known for high productivity this is mainly because boro is more manageable than kharif rice. For example, water management in boro is more systematic as it is an irrigated crop. Consequently, this crop responds well to higher doses of fertilizers resulting in higher production. Being a winter season crop, it is spared from insect-pest infestation. The video shows crop cutting and harvesting process in Baksa which is under the ITC MSK project and is being implemented by RGVN.