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What is drought? What are the consequences of drought?

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  • When no rainfall takes place in a place for a very long time, it rises to a situation of dry and infertile land called drought.
  • When a place hits with drought, there becomes an extreme scarcity of food in that particular region.
  • This extreme scarcity of food is called famine. Because of this large population dies of hunger.

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