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bread basket

noun [S] (FARMING)
 
 

Definition

a large farming area that provides other areas with food: The Eastern Province is the country's bread basket.Fertile or infertile land
(Definition of bread basket noun (FARMING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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