What are drought and famine? Explain in a few words.

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The condition that arrives due to long term and severe scarcity of food grains is called famine. Famine can be very severe.

One of the main causes for famine is drought. Drought is the deficiency of rainfall over an extended period. Due to lack of water resources, crop won't grow which results in famine.

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