Farmers selling cheap, so why do fruits and veggies cost you a bomb?

Budget 2018

Foodgrain production in 2016-17 is estimated at 276 million tonnes and in 2017-18 it is targeted at 275 million tonnes

BUDGET NEWS  : As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gets all the way down to finalise his budget Speech, which many trust could be targeted on the farm zone, the December information on consumer meals fee index (CFPI) and its wholesale price counterpart need to provide some perception.

The CFPI-based totally inflation for the month of December rose to 4.ninety six in step with cent year-on-yr from four.35 consistent with cent in November. In comparison, the wholesale rate index-based totally meals inflation declined from 6.06 per cent in November to 4.seventy two according to cent in December. As such, retail rate food inflation has crossed past wholesale price one for the primary time in the current months.

although this divergence within the movement of inflation isn’t uniform across all commodities in the institution however the index numbers are a pointer to the truth that while farmers hold to reel underneath the impact of low upward thrust in fees annoying the misery state of affairs in rural regions, customers in cities aren’t getting farm items that reasonably-priced.

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