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food price news

Retail inflation rises to 5.08 per cent in June, says govt data

Retail inflation has increased to 5.08 per cent in June due to kitchen items becoming dearer
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 06:24 pm IST

Food prices drive retail inflation to 3-month high of 4.81%

Food inflation, as measured by the consumer food price index, leapt to 4.49% in June.
Updated on Jul 13, 2023 01:52 am IST

Free tomatoes with smartphones in MP, bouncers prevent loot in UP

Over the past few days, the high mercury levels have adversely affected the supply of tomatoes, leading to their prices seeing an almost fivefold jump over the past 15 days. (PTI)
Published on Jul 09, 2023 11:23 pm IST

Global food price index falls for fifth consecutive month in August

The index has fallen from a record of 159.7 in March, hit after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Published on Sept 02, 2022 02:33 pm IST

Central panel to keep track of essentials as prices soar

Edible oil prices have remained elevated due to global supply disruptions and have knocked household budgets. (AFP)
Updated on May 02, 2022 05:24 am IST

Britannia plans 7% price hike; 'Never seen 2 years so bad,' says MD

Britannia biscuits are to become costlier this year. 
Published on Mar 31, 2022 12:05 pm IST

World food prices hit 10-year peak in 2021

With the exception of dairy products, prices for all categories in the food price index eased in December, with vegetable oils and sugar falling significantly, the agency said.
Published on Jan 06, 2022 02:50 pm IST

Keep a close watch on inflation figures | HT Editorial

Rising crude oil prices along with higher tax component of petrol-diesel prices can generate additional tailwinds for inflation going forward
Updated on Dec 15, 2020 08:30 pm IST

RBI may keep policy rates unchanged

The latest government data showed that the economy rebounded in the fiscal second quarter from a record 24% contraction in the preceding three months.
Published on Nov 30, 2020 01:45 am IST

Wholesale inflation contracts for 4th month in a row

Data released by the industry department showed that wholesale price index (WPI) inflation contracted 0.58% in July against a 1.81% contraction in June.
Published on Aug 15, 2020 05:37 am IST

India’s retail inflation for July rises 6.93% as food prices climb nearly 10%

People buy vegetables from Wadgaonsheri vegetable market ahead of lockdown in Pune
Updated on Aug 13, 2020 07:50 pm IST

WPI inflation rises to 3.1 percent in January

Wholesale prices-based inflation rose to 3.1 per cent in January. (Representative Image)
Updated on Feb 14, 2020 02:44 pm IST

Inclusion of vegetables in PDS may check food inflation woes

Food subsidies are the biggest expenditure item in the budget after interest payments and defence.
Updated on Jan 16, 2020 09:13 am IST

Retail inflation at 5-year-high, vegetables 60% expensive; to hurt economic recovery

The spike was caused by food prices, which account for almost 40% of the typical Indian household’s budget, and grew at 14% in the month of December.
Updated on Jan 14, 2020 09:22 am IST

Vegetable prices up 60 percent, retail inflation hits 5-year high

Core inflation – the non-food non-fuel component of CPI basket – has also increased marginally after declining for four consecutive months, even as the headline numbers were rising.
Updated on Jan 13, 2020 09:23 pm IST

Retail inflation jumps to 7.35 % in Dec, crosses RBI’s comfort level

As per the government data, the food inflation rose to 14.12 per cent in December as against (-) 2.65 per cent in the same month of 2018. It was 10.01 per cent in November 2019.
Updated on Jan 13, 2020 06:03 pm IST

News updates from Hindustan Times: Food may get costlier due to global prices, kharif yield and all the latest news at this hour

Lower output isn’t the only reason for relatively higher food prices. India’s net export of food items, i.e. the value of exports minus value of imports, is falling.
Updated on Dec 18, 2019 08:56 am IST

Food may get costlier as global prices, kharif yield to hit household spends

The price increase seems to have offset the effect of lower output.
Updated on Dec 18, 2019 04:17 am IST

Understanding India’s inflation trends | HT editorial

The short answer to why inflation numbers show a divergent trend is food. Food and beverages have a share of 46% in the CPI basket. The spike in retail inflation is mainly because of a seasonal shock to food prices, especially vegetables
Updated on Nov 14, 2019 08:34 pm IST

Retail inflation quickens to 3.99% in September

Workers unload sacks of potatoes from trucks at the Vashi Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) wholesale market in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Oct. 3 2019.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 06:43 pm IST

The politics of onion price rise | HT editorial

Even if left unattended, the onion price rally would have reversed in some time
Updated on Sept 26, 2019 09:29 pm IST

It’s a fact. We don’t want farmers to get rich | Opinion

A farmer harvesting his crop in a village in Punjab.
Updated on Sept 20, 2019 05:15 pm IST

India’s retail inflation rises to 3.21% in August

India’s retail inflation rate rose to 3.21% in August, driven by higher food prices, the government said on Thursday
Updated on Sept 12, 2019 06:42 pm IST

Kharif output expected to fall this year

Subdued food inflation benefits consumers or net buyers of food items, but they also hurt farm incomes, especially because commodity prices are not keeping pace with rising costs of cultivation.
Updated on Sept 11, 2019 03:51 am IST

India’s July WPI inflation eases to 1.08%

In a Reuters poll ,the wholesale price inflation was below the forecast of 1.93% and provisional 2.02% in June.
Updated on Aug 14, 2019 01:11 pm IST

Oped: Farm policy’s 3 dilemmas

Thousands of farmers clashed with the police and paramilitary forces at the national capital’s borders with Uttar Pradesh, prompting police to use tear gas, water cannons to stop protesting farmers from entering the city, at Delhi-Ghaziabad border, New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, October 2, 2018.
Updated on Jun 02, 2019 09:38 am IST

No 5-star hotel for new MPs in drive for cost-cutting

A second official at the secretariat added that in 2014, “almost 300 newly-elected MPs had to be accommodated in hotels.
Updated on May 23, 2019 07:49 am IST

WPI inflation slips to 3.07% in April, food prices still high

Mumbai...14th June 2011... News... Men at work at the vegetable market at Crawford on Tuesday. India's Wholesale Price Index (WPI) rose an annual 9.06 percent in May as the Government data shows - Photo by Kalpak Pathak
Updated on May 14, 2019 03:11 pm IST

Low food inflation adds to BJP’s political worries

Food prices did not increase at all in the last one year. For vegetables, the inflation growth is negative. This is bound to have put a significant strain on farm incomes
Published on Apr 15, 2019 01:23 am IST