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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They forced farmers to grow indigo crops instead of natural cotton/wheat/rice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Im pretty sure that was not during the drought itself, nor really caused it. It economically made sense and then probably exacerbated the famine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It wasn't just the drought. Indigo cropping destroyed the soil first, drought exacerbated the problems.