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  How USA converted in dust bowl from bread basket? Describe any five reasons. Or Explain the Dust Bowl tragedy of 1930s in USA.                       Or Analyse the reasons for recurrent dust storms in the great plains in America.

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                  The reasons for recurrent dust storms in the great plains of America are (i) The expansion of wheat agriculture and overgrazing of the prairies were responsible for the dust bowl tragedy. The entire landscape had been ploughed over, stripped all grass that held it together. (ii) The early 1930s were years of persistent drought. The wind blew with ferocious speed. Ordinary dust stroms became black blizzard which began to blow over the Southern plains. (iii) The black blizzard came day after day  year after year through the 1930s. (iv) When cultivation expanded dramatically, the farmers had recklessly uprooted all vegetations and tractors had turned the soil over, and broken the soil into dust. (v) As black blizzard rolled in , very often 7,000 to 8000 feet high, people were blinded and choked, cattle were suffocated to death, rivers were coated, fish died. The American dream of a land of plenty became a land of nightmare.