-The Hindu Business Line But food prices rise to 33-month high of 7.37% New Delhi: Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation for April eased to 3.07 per cent, from 3.62 per cent in the same month last year. The latest WPI print was also lower than 3.18 per cent recorded in March this year. Build up inflation for the financial year so far was 0.75 per cent, lower than 0.86 per cent in the...
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Will food inflation be a pain for next government? All depends on cloud cover -Aparna Iyer
-Livemint.com Food inflation stood at 1.38% in April after nearly 30 months of disinflation If it rains are below expectations, the steady rise in food prices would flare up, which would be a headache for the new government Mumbai: Indians had the good fortune of experiencing benign food prices for the last two years. This streak is now about to end as food inflation is back. It was 1.38% in April after nearly 30...
More »First challenge for next govt: Food inflation set to return -Parthasarathi Biswas & Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express The past couple of months have seen prices of a host of farm commodities surge, mainly on the back of drought in large parts of western and southern India, coupled with an early and harsher-than-usual summer. New Delhi, Pune: THE BJP-LED NDA government’s tenure has been marked by benign food prices. Consumer food inflation has ruled below general retail inflation for 31 months running, from September 2016 to...
More »Perils of over-promising -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express For all their talk on farm distress, on agriculture, BJP, Congress show they have not learnt from past failures. We often feel proud of our democratic system. But it also has a shortcoming, which has been magnified in the current election season. The conversation today is not about what the BJP/NDA promised in its manifesto of 2014, and how far they have been able to deliver on their...
More »After Haryana Bt Brinjal find, activists seek pan-India probe -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after confirmation of illegal cultivation of genetically modified (GM) brinjal - Bt Brinjal - in a small farm in Fatehabad district of Haryana, a group of farm activists on Saturday wrote to Union environment ministry seeking its direction to government agencies for time-bound investigations beyond Haryana as they suspect that the cultivation of this transgenic variety of food crop may not be limited...
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