SAHAB, Jordan, March 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations food aid agency is stockpiling supplies in Jordan and other countries in the region to prepare to feed up to 900,000 people displaced in the event of war in Iraq, officials said on Wednesday.

"The United Nations is seeking a peaceful solution to this conflict at this present time. However, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that there might be a war in Iraq," said Maarten Roest, World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman.

"So at the moment, for the whole region, we are trying to pre-position foodstocks. What we are working on is to be ready to help 900,000 people for a period of two and a half months."

He said a basic emergency package of 32,000 tonnes of food was needed for people fleeing any war in Iraq to neighbouring Turkey, Iran, Syria and Jordan. WFP spokesman Khaled Mansour said one tonne of food feeds 60 people for one month.

The "major problem" the WFP faced was funding, Roest said, adding the agency had received about one-third of the $23 million needed.

He was speaking in a warehouse the WFP is using in Jordan, about 340 km (200 miles) from the border with Iraq, to stock wheat flour, rice, chick peas, oil and high-energy biscuits.

Jordanian workers, their faces dusted white with flour, hauled sacks off a truck and stacked them on pallets.

WFP officials are not expecting a high number of displaced people or refugees in Jordan, which borders Iraq's vast western desert. Two camps each with a capacity to hold 20,000 to 30,000 people are being prepared in Jordan.

"We have been requested by international organisations, and international NGOs, to facilitate and provide humanitarian assistance...We will do that under U.N. auspices," a senior Jordanian official said. Jordan was helping set up infrastructure for medical services, water and other supplies.