-The Indian Express Agricultural GDP is underestimated due to inaccurate non-cereal data. It started with a mundane question: what is the chicken population in India? There are glaring inconsistencies in the available data. The National Sample Survey Organisation's (NSSO's) surveys show a 20 per cent annual growth of chicken consumption between 2005 and 2010. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the production of chicken meat only rose 10 per...
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Price of Non-Subsidised LPG Hiked by Rs 220 a Cylinder
-Outlook The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG), which customers buy after consuming their quota of subsidised cylinders, was hiked by a steep Rs 220 per bottle today on firming international rates. The 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled nine bottles at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs 1,241, up from Rs 1,021 in Delhi, state-owned fuel retailers said. This is the third increase in non-subsidised LPG rates in...
More »Now, cheap cooking gas for villagers -MJ Prabu
-The Hindu Tamil Nadu: With the price of LPG gas cylinders going up, the need of the hour is technology that can provide cooking gas - an efficient fuel - that will help the poor, particularly the rural population. Vivekananda Kendra-Natural Resources Development (Vk- Nardep), an NGO in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, has come out with a low-volume fixed model Shakthi-Surabhi gas generating plant, aimed at solving the energy problems of the rural...
More »Inflation at 14-Month High, Food Prices Rise by 20%
-Outlook Costly vegetables, particularly potato and onion, pushed the November wholesale inflation to a 14-month high of 7.52 per cent, making it difficult for the Reserve Bank to ease key policy rate. Vegetable prices shot up by 95.25 per cent in November as compared to 78.38 per cent in the previous month, said the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation data released today. The overall inflation in the food segment comprising wheat, pulses, vegetables,...
More »WPI inflation surges to 14-month high of 7.52% -Somesh Jha
-The Business Standard Food prices rise 19.93% year-on-year in November The wholesale price inflation continued to show an uptick in November as it casts a shadow over possibility of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India in its upcoming monetary policy review. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI), a measure of inflation at wholesaler's level, rose to 7.52% in November from 7% a month ago mainly due to continued rise in vegetable...
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