National Crop and Food Supply Assessment
For the third consecutive year, drought conditions have been severely affecting agricultural crop production in Nepal, in some cases turning traditionally suplus production areas into deficit districts.In addition to the heavily drought affected Mid- and Far-Western Regions, flood exacerbated by hailstones and crop disease in various VDCs caused extensive crop loss. Drought particularly affected the traditionally food surplus areas of the Eastern Terai, particularly Siraha, Saptari and Dhanusha which reported a decline in paddy production of 30%. A total of 109,855 hectares of paddy land (7.09%) remained fallow in 2006/07 as farmers were unable to plant due to drought. In addition, yields were lower by almost 6%. Paddy crop production consequently declined by 12.5 % compared to last year.
News & Events
- Brief on the Food Security Situation in Nepal (Mid-July to mid-November 2017)
- Launch of Food Security Information System for Nepal
- Second Advance Estimate of 2016/17 Wheat Production in Nepal using CRAFT
- Brief on the food security situation in Nepal (Mid November 2016 to Mid March 2017)
- Updated NeKSAP guidance on food security response analysis and district food security monitoring
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Household Food Security, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Nepal-3
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Household Food Security, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Nepal-2
