the nation's breadbasket
agricultural breadbasket
regional breadbasket
A: Why is the local economy struggling lately?
A：最近当地经济为什么在衰退？
B: Because the drought has devastated our region's breadbasket.
B：因为干旱摧毁了我们地区的粮仓。
1) 指能够产出大量谷物或主要农产品的地区。
2) 比喻为某地的食物来源核心区域。
1. 粮仓，粮食产区
noun
1. A region or area that produces large amounts of food, especially grain, to supply a large population or a country.
Synonym: granary