India’s retail inflation and food inflation

Food inflation has also eased marginally from 10.9% to 9.04% in November, rural consumers having reported a marginally higher rise of 9.1%, while the urban population recorded an 8.74% increase in food prices.

Highlights:

• This is the third consecutive month wherein food inflation has remained above 9%, while the overall consumer price increase has also remained above 5% for the same period.
• Vegetable inflation registered a fall from the 57-month high of 42.2% in October to 29.33%, while oils and fats inflation surged the fastest at 13.3% in the last two-and-a-half years.

Retail inflation

• It also known as consumer price inflation (CPI), measures the rate at which the prices of goods and services purchased by consumers increase or decrease over time.

Food Inflation

• Food inflation is the rise in the price of food commodities.

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