How did Stalin engineer mass starvation in the Ukraine?

Joseph Stalin who was the leader of the Soviet Union planned events which were designed to cause a famine in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 to destroy the people who were seeking independence from his rule. It resulted to the death of an estimated 7,000,000 in Ukraine, which is also identified as the breadbasket of Europe. The people were deprived of food which they had grown with their own hands.