farming region
Crop-producing territory
A farming region is an area where agriculture dominates the landscape and economy.
The term typically describes rural zones characterized by cultivated fields, ranches, or orchards: The Central Valley is California's most productive farming region.
Farming regions are often distinguished by their primary crops or livestock: a wheat-farming region, a dairy farming region.
- breadbasketMajor grain-producing region
- agricultural heartlandProductive farming region
- rural communitySettlement outside cities
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
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farming regionindustrial region
Area of concentrated production
urban area · metropolitan region · metropolitan area · industrial zone · industrial district
farming regionwasteland
Uninhabitable barren region
desert · wilderness · badlands · pristine wilderness · tundra