The wholesale price-based food inflation rose for the fourth consecutive week. In the previous week it stood at 17.94 per cent.
This is the second week in a row that food inflation has increased, after easing for three successive weeks.
The rate of price rise of food items was 12.92 per cent in the previous week ended June 19.
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For the week ending January 2, food inflation (prices of non-processed food articles) stood at 17.28 per cent.
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Food inflation softened to 18.22 per cent as of the week ended December 26, although potato and pulses continued to cost high. The wholesale price based inflation was 19.83 per cent in the previous week.
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Potato prices remained high recording an increase of 115 per cent on a year-on-year basis, followed by pulses whose prices jumped by 41.61 per cent. Vegetables as a whole turned expensive by 37.97 per cent.
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As per the new system, the weekly wholesale price index data would cover only primary articles and commodities in the broad group -- fuel, power, light and lubricants, an official statement said.
The wholesale price index-based inflation stood below one per cent mark for the fourth consecutive week after rising from sub-zero levels in the first week of September.
Vegetable inflation softened to 24.76 per cent in June, down from 33.15 per cent in the previous month. Inflation in potato was (-) 24.27 per cent, against (-) 23.36 per cent in May.
Inflation in food articles during May stood at 1.13 per cent, as against 2.55 per cent in April.
Food inflation inched up to 17.40 per cent for the week ended January 16 on account of high prices of potato and pulses. The wholesale price-based food inflation was 16.81 per cent in the previous week. Potato prices rose as much as 57.56 per cent over the last year, followed by prices of pulses which jumped by 46.87 per cent.
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On an annual basis, potato prices more than doubled, pulses became expensive by over 35 per cent, while onions rose by 27 per cent.
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