Food supplies continued despite bad weather: WFP

September 11, 2006
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The United Nations World Food Programme maintained emergency food deliveries despite weather conditions that continued to cause flash flooding throughout Nepal.

“Over the weekend the country was again pounded by heavy rainfall, but we’ve been able to get enough food out to feed nearly 50,000 people for seven days,” a press statement issued by the WFP quoted Richard Ragan, WFP’s Country Director for Nepal as saying.

Working with the Nepal Red Cross Society, WFP will provide rice, oil, lentils, and salt, worth US$500,000, to feed people over the next month in four western districts of Nepal — Banke, Bardiya, Achham, and Mugu, the statement added.

The statement further said “The UN humanitarian agency anticipates that needs are likely to rise over the rest of this year as the districts of Banke and Bardiya are important rice producing areas for Nepal where flooding has washed away much of the upcoming crop.”

“If the government identifies the need for additional international support, we are prepared to help,” Ragan. added

Since June of this year, WFP has also been working to feed 225,000 people in the remote parts of western Nepal affected by ongoing drought.

Many districts of the country are badly affected by floods and landslides due to heavy rain.