The World Food Program (WFP) in Syria needs a fund of two billion US dollars in 2014 to cover the needs of seven million displaced Syrians in and outside the country, a WFP spokesperson said, noting that securing the fund is one of the major challenges facing the UN program in conflict-torn Syria.

"Our program targets seven million Syrians in 2014 and the operation's cost is two billion dollars," Abeer Etefa, the WFP's Middle East and North Africa spokesperson, said in an interview with Xinhua on Thursday.

While the Syrian crisis is entering its fourth year, the ability of the international community to continue the flow of funds to WFP mission in Syria has started dwindling.

The WFP now delivers food to about four million Syrians every month, which costs about 40 million dollars per week.

Etefa said the humanitarian situation in Syria is "tough." Many Syrians are suffering from food insecurity and in some cases, hunger. Another challenge facing the WFP is to have access to besieged areas in Syria.

"Our latest statistics indicate that 6.5 million Syrians cannot secure their needs without outside aid and are in an urgent need for food assistance," she said.

The WFP delivers food rations to afflicted Syrians throughout charities and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. The UN program has warehouses in the countryside of the capital Damascus, where the food parcels get prepared for shipping and distribution.

Hussam al-Saleh, senior public information assistant of the WFP mission in Syria, said workers at the WFP warehouses "carry out the process of packing and preparing the food rations that are distributed to the needy people throughout a network of our partners, such as the Red Crescent or some charities."

"We have four production lines. Each has a capacity of producing 2,500 food parcels on a daily base. Each food parcel contains rice, sugar, cooking oil, lentils and pasta," Hussam said.

Aside from the work of the WFP in Syria, the Syrian government has succeeded in pushing down the prices of almost all consumer commodities by around 30 percent, thanks to its crackdown on money dealers and the recovery of the Syrian pound.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said recently that the prices of food and ration fell by about 20 to 35 percent and will continue to decline. The government will keep on providing markets with additional quantities of various materials, especially eggs, chicken, potatoes, sugar, vegetable oil, flour and rice.