Major supermarket chains are increasing supplies of bread and other essential foodstuffs amid evidence of widespread panic-buying in advance of Storm Emma.

Terai is Nepal's agricultural and industrial hub that supplies essential foodstuffs and goods like fuel to the highlands of Nepal, including Kathmandu.

Aid groups are distributing essential foodstuffs to the poorest places in Badakhshan, while government health workers are trying to educate people in nutrition.

That is to say to lower the prices of essential foodstuffs and to fight hunger in certain corners of the island, he said.