date:Sep 17, 2012
Taking 2004-05 as the base (100), the official Wholesale Price Index for food articles for the month of August 2012 declined by 0.4 per cent to 211.4 (provisional) from 212.2 (provisional) for the previous month.
This was attributed to the fall in the prices of fruits and vegetables (5%), poultry (4%), marine fish (2%) and milk (1%).
However, the prices of arhar (8%), ragi (7%), gram and urad (6% each), moong, coffee and wheat (5% each), bajra, condiments and spices and masur (4% each), egg,