| Zimbabwe, once a regional breadbasket, now suffers acute shortages of food, hard currency, petrol and other imports. |
| Chandra was not much of a student, so at 19 he plunged into the family foodgrain business in Hissar, a town in India's northern breadbasket. |
| This disruption to farming in Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Southern Africa, comes as millions of people in the region face famine. |
| The best way to obtain that capital was to increase agriculture exports from Ukraine, once known as the breadbasket of Europe. |
| About 4 million people will need food aid before the next harvest in what was once a regional breadbasket, according to UN estimates. |
| The nation that was once known as the breadbasket of Africa quickly became, according to economists, a basket case. |
