[Taqwus]

Growth scale's population growth is relative to existing population, and by default it's pretty low, so if a population is massively depleted you can pretty much forget about it unless it's an extremely long game. So yes, bring supply items, and use NNE summons.

You *could* move an S9 mage there and Wish for population, which IIRC grabs them from another province just as if a migration event happened. This isn't normally a good use of 100 pearls, 'tho.