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• To encourage the spread of good practice, a ministry of agriculture was established after the famine of 1891
• The Peasant Land Bank was created in 1883 which was set up to allow peasants to borrow money at relatively cheap rates to allow the purchase of land
• The economic policies of Vyhsnegradskii, including exporting large amounts of grain despite the prospect of a domestic shortage and starvation resulted in the 1891 famine