{
  "id": "pri-wpifood-018",
  "question": "What is wholesale food inflation running at?",
  "topic": "Prices",
  "unit": "%",
  "decimals": 2,
  "measures": "Year-on-year change in the WPI Food Index (base 2022-23=100), compiled by the Office of the Economic Adviser, DPIIT. The Food Index combines 'Food Articles' from primary articles and 'Manufacture of Food Products' from manufactured products (weight 24.99%). Rates are shown from May 2025, the first month DPIIT published a rate on the 2022-23 base; DPIIT's releases print monthly rates from December 2025, and earlier months are the year-on-year change in DPIIT's published index, calculated the way DPIIT calculates the printed ones. The latest month is provisional and is finalised two months later.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "DPIIT, Office of the Economic Adviser, Wholesale Price Index (base 2022-23=100)",
    "url": "https://eaindustry.nic.in/",
    "table": "WPI 2022-23=100, Food Index; YoY of the published index (wpi_monthly_index file)",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-10-14",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-18",
  "nextDueBy": "2026-11-16",
  "processing": "Year-on-year change in DPIIT's published WPI Food Index, to two decimals; it reproduces DPIIT's published rates from December 2025.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry",
    "survey": "Wholesale Price Index (WPI)",
    "baseYear": "2022-23",
    "frequency": "Monthly, on the 14th (next working day if a holiday); provisional, then final two months later",
    "measures": "Year-on-year change in the WPI Food Index: 'Food Articles' (weight 15.978) from Primary Articles plus 'Manufacture of Food Products' (9.020) from Manufactured Products; DPIIT gives the Food Index weight as 24.99",
    "notes": [
      "Major group weights on the 2022-23 base: Primary Articles 22.76, Fuel and Power 14.11, Manufactured Products 63.13 (September 2026 release, Annexure I).",
      "Base revised from 2011-12 to 2022-23; rates on the old base are not comparable.",
      "Released with the Output Producer Price Index and a trial Input Producer Price Index on the same day.",
      "The provisional index is finalised two months later (the September 2026 release finalised July 2026)."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "May 2025",
      "start": "2025-05",
      "end": "2025-05",
      "value": 0.09
    },
    {
      "period": "Jun 2025",
      "start": "2025-06",
      "end": "2025-06",
      "value": -1.62
    },
    {
      "period": "Jul 2025",
      "start": "2025-07",
      "end": "2025-07",
      "value": -2.05
    },
    {
      "period": "Aug 2025",
      "start": "2025-08",
      "end": "2025-08",
      "value": -1.95
    },
    {
      "period": "Sep 2025",
      "start": "2025-09",
      "end": "2025-09",
      "value": -3.4
    },
    {
      "period": "Oct 2025",
      "start": "2025-10",
      "end": "2025-10",
      "value": -5.14
    },
    {
      "period": "Nov 2025",
      "start": "2025-11",
      "end": "2025-11",
      "value": -3.61
    },
    {
      "period": "Dec 2025",
      "start": "2025-12",
      "end": "2025-12",
      "value": -2.53
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan 2026",
      "start": "2026-01",
      "end": "2026-01",
      "value": -0.36
    },
    {
      "period": "Feb 2026",
      "start": "2026-02",
      "end": "2026-02",
      "value": 1.27
    },
    {
      "period": "Mar 2026",
      "start": "2026-03",
      "end": "2026-03",
      "value": 1.92
    },
    {
      "period": "Apr 2026",
      "start": "2026-04",
      "end": "2026-04",
      "value": 3.29
    },
    {
      "period": "May 2026",
      "start": "2026-05",
      "end": "2026-05",
      "value": 4.58
    },
    {
      "period": "Jun 2026",
      "start": "2026-06",
      "end": "2026-06",
      "value": 6.23
    },
    {
      "period": "Jul 2026",
      "start": "2026-07",
      "end": "2026-07",
      "value": 6.56
    },
    {
      "period": "Aug 2026",
      "start": "2026-08",
      "end": "2026-08",
      "value": 7.05
    },
    {
      "period": "Sep 2026",
      "start": "2026-09",
      "end": "2026-09",
      "value": 8.66
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/pri-wpifood-018/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/pri-wpifood-018/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/pri-wpifood-018/versions.csv"
}