An area in which the main industry is the breeding of livestock.
August rains provided timely relief over inland pastoral districts of Queensland
Example sentencesExamples
- The project is eventually planning to reach all pastoral districts in the country.
- The largely pastoral district in the northern part of the country has experienced a dramatic depletion of natural forests and soil erosion.
- The feedlot aims to re-establish the livestock trade from the pastoral districts through the port.
- Farmworkers in the pastoral districts were drawn from the old population.
- He was given the task of building a railway from Ipswich to Toowoomba, the largest town in the rich pastoral district of the Darling Downs.