Fix rural infrastructure, process more food to cure inflation

Food supply chain in the country is marred by infrastructural bottlenecks, high food inflation, varied food preferences and low brand consciousness, an agriculture economist today said. Addressing a seminar on food supply chain organised by FICCI in ...

Malawi's headline inflation softened by 0.6 percentage points in March to hit 24 percent thanks to falling food prices, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said yesterday. This should be good news to President Joyce Banda and Finance Minister ...

A continued weakness in domestic demand pressures should however, limit the upside pressure on retail inflation going forward, The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) fell 1.9% in February after staying almost flat i.. 16 Apr 2014 NEW DELHI ...

RBI seen likely to keep tight monetary stance NEW DELHI, April 15, (RTRS): Rising food prices drove inflation in India up more than expected in March, reversing a slowdown and leaving the central bank with less room to support the economy amid ...

India's high inflation problem simply doesn't seem to end. As per an article in Economic Times, both wholesale price index (WPI) and consumer price index (CPI) increased more than expected in March 2014. As you can see in today's chart of the day, both the ...

Anyone who buys food knows that food inflation has been here for some time already - and it's getting worse. But as with most dark clouds, this one has a silver lining if you look at it the right way. And that means looking for companies that will ...

Higher Food Prices drive up the retail inflation The headline CPI inflation (combined) for March 2014 accelerated to 8.31% (y-o-y) from a 25-month low of 8.03% in February 2014, driven by higher food prices. The index increased to 138.1 from 137.3 seen in ...

CPI inflation for March rose to 8.31 percent versus 8.10 percent (MoM) due to soaring food inflation, which inched to 9.1 percent from 8.57 percent last month

"We have already seen that the prices of food and milk are up, but whatever deceleration we have seen in vegetable prices since November seems to be over." In an interview with ET Now, Tanvee Gupta Jain, India Economist, Macquarie Securities, shares her ...