Edible oil continues to pinch pockets
September 15, 2025
|Business Standard
With India's consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation seeing an uptick in August to 2.07 per cent from 1.61 per cent in July on account of a low-base effect, and reduced deflation in food prices, certain food items, especially edible oils, continue to see record inflation during the month.
Data showed that prices of coconut oil rose by 133 per cent during the month, followed by coconut copra (73.4 per cent), mustard oil (24 per cent) and refined oil (23.4 per cent). Inflation in tomato (16.9 per cent) prices too put the b
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