harvest failure
Fields yielded nothing
Harvest failure is the loss or severe shortfall of a crop due to drought, disease, pests, frost, or other disasters.
The term typically describes regional or national-scale agricultural catastrophe rather than individual farm losses: The Irish potato famine began with harvest failure in 1845.
Historically, harvest failures caused famines; modern global trade has reduced but not eliminated this threat.
- famineSevere food shortage
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
hunger · locusts · withered · barren · scarcity · ruin · dust · dust bowl · parched · scorched earth · devastation · granary · empty · desperate · poverty · corn · wheat · rot
harvest failurebumper crop
Unusually large harvest
bountiful harvest · good harvest · overproduction · glut · high yield
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