The Famine Code of 1914 in the Madras Presidency included a detailed note on addressing fodder famine too. A fodder famine is a shortage of fodder. A perusal of the exhaustive document shows that ...

India (Bombay Presidency): flowers and fruit eaten. (Madras Presidency): the deciduous, fleshy corolla is eaten raw or roasted. Ripe fruit eaten. A bland [sic] cooking oil is extracted from the seeds.

The British commandeered a small irrigation ery in a village called Puzhal, and vastly expanded its capacity to supply drinking water to the city, in response to the Madras famine of 1876.

As per HR Pate’s Madras District Gazetteers — Tinnevelly Volume 1, 1887 witnessed a climactic catastrophe with Tirunelveli district recording two floods, a famine, and a cholera outbreak.