-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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Edible oil prices in India to surge as Indonesia to ban palm oil exports from 28 April -Ravi Dutt Mishra
-Livemint.com Global cooking oil prices have surged this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which hit shipments of sunflower oil from the region. The Black Sea accounts for 76% of world sunflower oil exports. NEW DELHI: Domestic edible oil prices, already high, are set for a surge as Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, will ban exports from 28 April. Indonesia, too, has been battling high edible oil prices amid domestic...
More »Indonesia ban on palm oil exports starting April 28 rattles Indian markets -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard/ Agencies The country meets almost 45% of India's annual palm oil demand; media reports say ban put in place to check soaring domestic prices of the commodity In what could have a devastating impact on edible oil prices and supplies in India, Indonesia, which is the world’s largest producer of palm oil and meets nearly 45 per cent of the total palm oil supplied into India annually, has decided to...
More »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...
More »Why wheat prices have shot up despite India’s huge reserves -Vivek Kaul
-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...
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