Food and Nutrition Program extended in four local levels of Madhesh Province

Kathmandu: The federal government has expanded the Food and Nutrition Security Program for the flood-affected people in four additional local levels in Madhesh Province.

The program has been extended with support from the World Bank. This program was under implementation in four districts of the province. It has been recently extended to the flood-hit rural municipalities of Dhanusha and Mahottari districts, targeting the indigent and underprivileged farmers.

Yugal Kishor Tiwari, the senior agriculture development officer at the Food and Nutrition Security Improvement Program Cluster Unit, said the program has been expanded to Samsi and Sonama of Mahottari and Bateshwar and Janaknandani rural municipalities of Dhanusha. The programme has already come into implementation since this month in the rural municipalities selected in the second phase.

The program is implemented in Mukhiyapatti Musarniya and Dhanauji of Dhanusha and Pipara and Ekdara municipalities in Mahottari in the first phase. The program is under implementation in Saptari and Siraha districts of the province as well.

Tiwari said the federal government brought the program with the technical assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the financial support of the Global Agriculture Food Security Program, under the World Bank’s monitoring.

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