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Oct WPI slows to 27-month low amid food price decline
Mint Mumbai
|November 15, 2025
India’s wholesale inflation fell to a 27-month low in October on the back of record low food prices, provisional data from the ministry of commerce and industry showed on Friday.
Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation fell to “1.21% annually in October after coming in at 0.13% the previous month, The economists polled by Reuters had projected wholesale prices would fall 0.6% year-on-year in October. A year earlier, WPI inflation stood at 2.75%.
Food inflation, a key driver of the index, turned negative at -5.04% in October, from 1.99% in September, 0.21% in August, -2.15% in July, and -0.26% in June.
The fall in wholesale prices in October was led by lower prices of vegetables, wheat, pulses and oilseeds. The prices of cereals also declined from the previous month.
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