India’s food inflation nudged up after three successive weeks of decline to 8.74 per cent for the week ended April 9 compared to 8.28 per cent recorded in the previous week as fruits, meat and poultry products became costlier, official data showed on Thursday.
Limited data on the wholesale price index released by the commerce and industry ministry also showed a rise in the index for primary articles, from 11.4 per cent in the week before to 11.96 per cent for the week under review.
The fuel index moved up slightly to 13.05 per cent as against 12.97 per cent in the previous week.
The following are the yearly rise and fall in prices of some main commodities that form the sub-index for food articles:
Onions: 8.28 per cent
Vegetables: 1.53 per cent
Fruits: 25.15 per cent
Potatoes: 1.21 per cent
Milk: 4.05 per cent
Eggs, meat, fish: 14.96 per cent
Cereals: 4.48 per cent
Rice: 2.08 per cent
Wheat: 1.31 per cent
Pulses: (-)5.67 per cent