A farming region of Bajor, once among the planet's most productive and badly damaged by the Cardassians, which is at the centre of the dispute over soil reclamators in the episode Shakaar.
Rakantha Province was poisoned by the Cardassians before their withdrawal, and much of its land can no longer be worked. In Shakaar, set in 2371, Kai Winn, acting as First Minister, wants to restore it quickly so that Bajor can grow crops for export and strengthen its claim to Federation membership.
To do so she demands the return of the soil reclamators lent to a group of farmers in Dahkur Province, among them Kira's old Resistance leader Shakaar Edon, who need the machines to feed their own district.
Winn sends Kira to persuade Shakaar and, when he refuses, orders his arrest. The farmers take to the hills as they did during the Occupation, the militia sent after them declines to fire on Resistance heroes, and Shakaar ends by standing against Winn for First Minister.