New Delhi: Food inflation rose to 15.58 per
cent for the second week of November from 14.55 per cent in
the previous week as potatoes and pulses turned costlier.
On an annual basis, potato prices more than doubled,
pulses became expensive by over 35 per cent, while onions rose
by 27 per cent.
Price rise was significant on weekly basis with urad and
poultry chicken rising by 15 per cent each, eggs by 8 per
cent, moong by 6 per cent, arhar by 5 per cent and fruits &
vegetables by 3 per cent.
Among the non-food articles, raw silk turned expensive by
3 per cent, while fodder and groundnut seed by 2 per cent
each.
Fuel index though remained unchanged at the previous
week's level.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 13:13