According to the ministry, 41 out of 75 districts in the country are currently facing a food deficit. The Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has been supplying food grains to 30 hill districts that suffer food shortages on an annual basis.

On the other hand, propelled by a winter drought, the remote hill districts are already facing food shortages this year although these districts used to face a shortage from June onwards.

The NFC said it was already receiving high demand and it had already sold 92,000 quintals of rice this year out of 124,000 quintals sent to various districts.

The United Nations World Food Program has already warned that the winter drought, which would cause crop losses of between 30-70 percent, would push two million people toward hunger.

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Editor:Yang Jie