Half of Nepali households still burn firewood to cook food

Among the 6.66 million households in the country, 51 percent use firewood and 44.3 percent use LPG in their kitchens.

More than half of Nepali households still burn firewood to cook their food even though the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has doubled in the last 10 years, says the final report of the latest national census released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Friday.