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Government of India
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
22-November-2019 17:02 IST
Prices of Food Items

Government is aware of the prices of food items including vegetables, especially onions and tomatoes.

All India Daily Average Retail Prices of 22 essential food items including vegetables, onions and tomatoes during the last three years is Annexed. Prices of food items are inter-alia affected by mismatch in demand and supply, shortfall in production owing to adverse weather conditions and seasonality, increased transportation costs, supply chain constraints like lack of storage facilities, artificial shortage created by hoarding and black marketing, etc.

Government has taken various measures from time to time to stabilize prices of essential food items which, inter-alia, include appropriately utilizing trade and fiscal policy instruments like import duty and export management through instruments like Minimum Export Price, export restrictions, etc. to regulate domestic availability and moderate prices; imposition of stock limits and advising States for effective action against hoarders & black marketers. Also appropriate Minimum Support Price are promulgated to incentivize farmers for increasing production. Government is also implementing Schemes which, inter alia, include Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), National Food Security Mission (NFSM), etc. for increasing agricultural production and productivity through appropriate interventions. Besides, Government is also implementing Price Stabilization Fund (PSF) to help moderate the volatility in prices of agri-horticultural commodities like pulses, onion, and potato. Ministry of Food

Processing Industries (MoFPI) is implementing scheme “Operation Greens” for integrated development of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) value chain which, inter alia, has the objective of price stabilization for producers and consumers through production planning in the TOP clusters and introduction of dual use varieties.

Government, on 29 September 2019, imposed stock limits on onion traders across the country – 100 quintals on retail traders and 500 quintals on wholesale traders under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. Further, Government of India has urged State Governments to hold regular meetings with the traders of Onions at State and District level to prevent hoarding, speculative trading and profiteering, unfair and illegal trade practices like cartelling, etc.

ANNEXURE

 

ALL INDIA YEARLY AVERAGE RETAIL PRICES OF 22 ESSENTIAL FOOD ITEMS MONITORED BY DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS

 

 

 

 

 

(Unit: in ₹/kg.)

Year

 

 

 

 

 

2016

2017

2018

2019 (Till

Commodity

 

 

 

13.11.2019)

 

 

 

 

 

Rice

27.32

29.23

30.05

31.38

 

 

 

 

 

Wheat

23.57

23.90

24.20

26.60

 

 

 

 

 

Atta (Wheat)

25.16

26.24

26.43

28.12

 

 

 

 

 

Gram Dal

90.78

87.28

66.47

65.89

 

 

 

 

 

Tur/Arhar Dal

131.72

84.02

71.07

80.55

 

 

 

 

 

Urad Dal

136.95

92.35

70.83

74.37

 

 

 

 

 

Moong Dal

94.55

77.57

73.46

80.10

 

 

 

 

 

Masoor Dal

82.75

70.32

61.29

62.61

 

 

 

 

 

Groundnut Oil (Packed)

130.99

131.00

125.79

129.15

 

 

 

 

 

Mustard Oil (Packed)

109.47

106.98

106.16

109.28

 

 

 

 

 

Vanaspati (Packed)

74.40

77.71

80.32

80.15

 

 

 

 

 

Soya Oil (Packed)

82.61

85.21

89.34

92.09

 

 

 

 

 

Sunflower Oil (Packed)

95.11

93.10

96.28

99.45

 

 

 

 

 

Palm Oil (Packed)

68.58

70.37

76.68

75.53

 

 

 

 

 

Potato

19.28

14.94

19.02

17.93

 

 

 

 

 

Onion

16.79

22.41

23.64

24.68

 

 

 

 

 

Tomato

26.01

32.32

21.82

31.02

 

 

 

 

 

Sugar

38.62

42.63

38.92

38.56

 

 

 

 

Gur

42.02

44.72

43.11

43.93

 

 

 

 

 

Milk (₹/ltr.)

39.96

41.58

42.31

43.57

 

 

 

 

 

Tea Loose

199.02

202.76

209.19

211.84

 

 

 

 

 

Salt Pack (Iodised)

14.98

15.11

15.22

15.37

 

Source: - State Civil Supplies Deptt.

This information was given in a written reply by the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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