WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF FAMINE?
A Famine is characterised by wide spread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by forced use of contaminated water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to weakening from starvation.
A Famine is usually followed after a natural calamity, when total production of foodgrains decreases.
This creates a shortage of food in the affected areas.
Due to shortage of food, the prices go up.
At high prices, some people are not able to buy food.
When such calamity happens in a very wide spread area or is stretched over a longer time period, it may cause a situation of starvation.
This massive starvation then takes a turn of famine.
A Famine is usually followed after a natural calamity, when total production of foodgrains decreases.
This creates a shortage of food in the affected areas.
Due to shortage of food, the prices go up.
At high prices, some people are not able to buy food.
When such calamity happens in a very wide spread area or is stretched over a longer time period, it may cause a situation of starvation.
This massive starvation then takes a turn of famine.