Main Raw Material Grown in a Region

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Fauna and Flora, Group 178, Puzzle 1 (Photosynthesis).

Question is: Main Raw Material Grown in a Region

and the answer is: STAPLE

Word Meaning:

STAPLE — (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.

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