The prices of vegetables skyrocketed in the city on Friday, as commission ag-ents of all wholesale vege-table markets — Bowenpa-lly, Madannapet, Mir Alam, Moosapet, Kushaig-uda, Gudimalkapur — went o

Buried in recent monthly data for wholesale prices in India, the wild gyrations of a humble vegetable tell the tale of an economy trapped in inflation by its own rigidities.

Back in December, after a

Millions of Indians are facing a new health risk. Increasing water scarcity is forcing farmers to grow vegetables and fodder using untreated sewage waste water across urban and rural cities.

The Food

Retail inflation spurted to 9.47 per cent in March because of higher prices of milk, vegetables, protein-based items and edible oil products.

Retail inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (

Chennaiites will have to spend more for their greens till July, especially with a shortage of 50 tonnes of all kinds of vegetables reaching the Chennai market every day from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka

Shopping for vegetables in the Ugadi season has been a nightmare with prices going beyond the reach of the common man in the city.

“It is almost a month now since we have cooked beans. We can’t affor

Vegetable prices in the district have sky-rocketed during the last three weeks following erratic arrivals from Tamil Nadu, say tra-ders in the Ernakulam vegetable market.

“In key vegetable markets in

New Delhi, Jan. 18: With food inflation still high at 16.91 per cent on account of the high prices of vegetables, milk and meat, the agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, said his ministry had no dir

Jan. 6: It hadn’t been a Merry Christmas for consumers last year, with prices shooting through the roof. Well, it’s now official. Food inflation, which measures the rate at which food prices are goin