Concerned over the rising food inflation in the country, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has asserted that the government will control price rise despite below normal monsoon. Food Minister has said that there is no shortage of supplies and the government has already initiated measures to deal with hoarders and black-marketers. To restrain rising food inflation in the country, the government has recently taken measures such as de-listing of fruits and vegetables from Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act, bringing onion and potato under the Essential Commodities Act, fixing minimum export price of $500 per tonne and $450 per tonne on export of onion and potato respectively. Further, an additional 50 lakh tonnes of rice has been allocated for distribution towards Below Poverty Line (BPL).
Food inflation can increase in near term as weak monsoon rains would impact the performance of Indian agriculture sector. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had highlighted that southwest monsoon may remain below normal with the country likely to receive 93 percent of the long-period average (LPA) rainfall. Till June 17, the country has received 45 percent less rainfall in the first spell. WPI inflation rose to five month high at 6.01% y-o-y in the month of May as against 5.20% in April. Inflation in food articles increased by 9.50% y-o-y in May as compared to 8.64% in April.
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