-IndiaToday.in Rising international prices of wheat and fuel are pushing wheat prices up at home. There is also a demand for India to export wheat India’s CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rose to a 17-month high of 6.95 per cent in March 2022, exceeding the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation target for three consecutive months. The prices of wheat and wheat products in the country have gone up by 15-20 per cent...
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In Wake of Ukraine War, India Set to See Rising Food Grain Prices -Siraj Hussain and Shweta Saini
-TheWire.in The wholesale price inflation for wheat in March was 14%. The retail prices will, therefore, reflect the same once the peak arrival season is over, in June 2022. Even the critics of India’s public distribution system (PDS) acknowledge that it worked well during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additional allocations of free food grains at 5 kg per person per month, under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), helped prevent mass hunger...
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-Livemint.com Central stocks haven’t been released while exports were upped to fill a Ukraine war-created vacuum One side effect of Russia attacking Ukraine has been a rise in global wheat prices. Wheat importers are struggling. I had written about this possibility in this space on 23 March (‘Like oil, soaring prices of wheat could have broad repercussions’). Towards the end, I had said that India was unlikely to be impacted primarily because...
More »Mandi prices of key rabi crops above MSP on strong demand -Sandip Das
-Financial Express Traders told FE that for mustard, the biggest domestic oilseed variety, prices at Bharatpur mandi, Rajasthan, are currently ruling around Rs 6,800 per quintal against the MSP of Rs 5,050 a quintal, while wheat in Sehore mandi, Madhya Pradesh, is currently being sold at Rs 2,150 a quintal against MSP of Rs 2,015 a quintal. As market arrivals have peaked, mandi prices of key rabi crops — wheat and mustard...
More »Panic buy in Punjab, farmers stock diesel to cut costs -Harpreet Bajwa
-The New Indian Express As crude oil prices soar to record highs, panic buying of diesel has started in Punjab with a 70 per cent rise in sales as compared to the same period last year. CHANDIGARH: As crude oil prices soar to record highs, panic buying of diesel has started in Punjab with a 70 per cent rise in sales as compared to the same period last year. People fear that...
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