India’s state run trading agency has invited bids for the sale of 6000 tonnes of imported pulses in order to boost domestic supply in the wake of high food inflation.....
India's food inflation based on wholesale prices has steadied at 18% with government officials confident that it will come down in the coming months on good rabi crop. OPEC has forecasted increased en....
India’s wholesale price based food inflation eased to 17.81 per cent for the week ended Feb 27, compared with 17.87 percent from the previous week.....
India Government may not yield to widespread demand to rollback excise and customs duty on petroleum products including 18% Minimum Alternative Tax (MAT) in the Union Budget proposals for 2010-11 as i....
Pranab Mukherjee has announced several initiatives for the agricultural infrastructure and food processing but doesn't state how food inflation can be checked in short run. The Budget did not men....
Commodity markets are in for weakness following China move to further tighten its monetary policy and Eurzone debt concerns. India is grappling with rising food inflation but has managed to get record....
The commodities complex has been hurt by a combination of factors including US Dollar strength, falling equities, concern over economic recovery hopes and China's tight credit policy. In India, food i....
A number of steps have been taken to check the rise in prices of rice and wheat and to ensure their availability. The import duty on rice and wheat has been reduced to zero. Export of non-basmati rice....
Despite several measures that the Indian government has taken to tackle the rising food inflation rate, the food prices are expected to remain higher this year due the disparity between the demand and....
India’s annual rate of inflation based on the wholesale price index of food articles declined to 18.22 per cent during the week ended 26 December 2009 against 19.83 per cent during the previous ....
Food inflation at close to 20% continues to haunt policy makers and the common man. Pranab Mukherjee has already met a delegation from agriculture and he has the report of MS Swaminathan-led commis....