inflation, food inflation, wheat-rice stocks, food, wheat sales
Can we be sure of food inflation?

Retail vegetable price growth has averaged 10% a month in April 2019-October 2024, almost double the preceding period average, 5.3%.

World Bank (2022) data shows that 12.9% of Indians live on less than $2.15 (purchasing power parity) a day, an extreme level of poverty.
Rationalising leaky PDS

Revisit free food to 57%, redirect savings to agri sector, focus on direct cash transfer