Wholesale Price Index and price rise in food commodities
Within 12.01% over all WPI-based inflation for the week ending 26.7.08, the contribution of food articles is 5.58% (last year this figure was 9.74% as on 28.7.2007). The point to point annual inflation was negative for ragi (-0.18%), moong (-0.39%), urad (-9.1%), potato (-17.27%), onion (-29.18%) and groundnut oil (-0.96%) and higher in the case of pulses (2.24%), gram (5.79%), masur (16.14%), tea (36.61%) as well as sugar group (2.32%) as compared to the previous week.
All-India price trends
Over the week, prices of wheat remained steady at all reporting centers except for an increase at Bangalore only.
Prices of sugar remained steady at all the reporting centers except for an increase at Bhubaneshwar and Shillong.
Prices of gram dal remained steady at all the reporting centers except for an increase at Lucknow only.
Prices of tur dal remained steady at all reporting centers except for an increase at Bangalore and decrease at Lucknow, Agartala, Bhubaneshwar and Chennai.
Retail Prices of food commodities at Delhi in the week ending 6.8.08
Prices of the following commodities remained steady during the week: gram dal, tur dal and mustard oil. Prices remained stable for a month for rice. Prices of wheat, atta, groundnut oil, milk and salt have remained steady during the last six months.
Price of vanaspati declined while prices of tea, potato and onion showed a rise.
Price trend for potato and onion
The presently stored onion is arriving in different mandies/markets. The prices are ruling high as compared to June’08. The increase in onion prices is due to it being lean period when no fresh crop is available. Besides, there was scanty rain in onion producing areas of Nasik district (Maharashtra) and Gujarat owing to which the sowing of kharif crop is less and delayed. The farmers/traders are brining their stored stock of onion in mandies slowly to get benefit of high prices in near future. There is still about 22 lakh MTs of onion available in store in different states of the country which is sufficient to meet out the domestic demand during the coming months upto November’08. NAFED has increased onion MEP by $ 20 per MT to $250 w.e.f. 1.08.08 so that onion prices for domestic consumes may remain at reasonable levels.
Presently stored potato is arriving in different mandies/markets. In Azadpur (Delhi) the prices are ruling between Rs. 300-400 per qtl. with modal rate of Rs. 350 per qtl. However the rates for fresh potato from HP are ruling between Rs. 600-1000 per qtl. with modal rate of Rs. 800 per qtl. The prices are ruling low during the month of July’08 as compared to last year of the same period owing to more storage of potato in different states of the country. The reason for recent increase in prices of potato is scattered shower in the western part of the country.
Status of Imports of pulses
PSUs have contracted import of about 1.4 million tonnes of pulses in 2007-08 of which about 1.22 million tonnes has arrived and 1.10 million tonnes have been disposed of till 31.7.08. (PIB)
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