Page 7 - Food Prices

India's retail inflation may have breached RBI's comfort level of 4% in Oct

Prices of most vegetables climbed during the month as monsoon downpours delayed harvests and disrupted supplies.

Low food prices make doubling of farmers' income tougher: J M Financial

The climatic conditions and sowing patterns have presented a very mixed outlook on agriculture this year. While the South and West seem to be doing well, East and Central India are soft, report said

Trade war, currency variations threaten food price stability: Stefan Vogel

Relatively cheap vegetable oil prices will benefit imports into India, as India is importing massive volumes of edible oils every year, says Stefan Vogel

Centre to meet states on July 29 to curb surge in food prices

The meeting has been convened by the union food and consumer ministry with state food and civil supplies ministers

Boosted by cereals, world food prices edge higher in February: FAO

Global cereals output is expected to reach 2.6 bt in 2016 season, up 0.3% on previous forecasts

World food prices fall for fifth straight year in 2016: UN FAO

The full year 2016 logged a 1.5% annual drop in the index

Global food prices to decline on bumper output forecasts

Cereal price moves up in October, first in three months, on seasonal factor

This is how New Delhi ruins a good monsoon to create food inflation

Abundant rains show little correlation to food prices that are more likely to be decided by politicians.

Global food prices jump in June

Highest monthly average rise in 4 years; sugar and maize take lead

States should play active role in food security: new MoS

Referring distress sale and wastage of onions, tomatoes he said proper marketing mechanism is the need of the hour

Reining in food prices

Farmers need to be encouraged to grow more

Central ministers review food prices

Much of recent increase is seasonal, teams to look for more pulses abroad to push into market

India could lose $49 billion in GDP by food price shock: UN

The report also said that the world will likely suffer from more volatile food prices due to rising populations

Centre cracks down on food prices

Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty

World food prices rise slightly in April - FAO

Food prices on international markets in April were almost 10% lower than a year ago, FAO said