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Boundary scope
The boundary polygon for this growing area encompasses both the Mekliganj and Haldibari subdistricts of Cooch Behar district. Although geographically disjoint (separated by Bangladeshi territory), they share floodplain ecology (Tista and Mansai river systems), agricultural calendar, border-zone enforcement context, and district-level administration, and are documented under a single growing area on the wiki.
Boundary source
The polygon is traced from OSM administrative boundaries rather than freehand. Both salients have convoluted shapes resulting from the 2015 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement, and an editorial freehand trace would either misrepresent the political geography or fail to capture cultivation extent.
- Mekliganj subdistrict: OSM relation 10360855 (~327 km², 238 vertices after Douglas-Peucker simplification at tolerance 0.002°)
- Haldibari subdistrict: OSM relation 10360854 (~145 km², 56 vertices)
- Combined: 294 vertices, ~472 km², two-ring polygon
- Rendered in the muted admin style (`boundary_style = admin`) to distinguish from editorial growing-area traces
To regenerate or update, run `osm_boundary.py` against the same relation IDs.
Growing region assignment
Previous version of this page assigned the area to North Bengal Plains as growing region. Updated to The Dooars for consistency with the wiki's regional architecture and matching neighbouring areas (Khairbari-Deogaon, Jaldapara, Chilapata).