NEW DELHI: Wholesale inflation cooled to a six-month low of 2.05 per cent in March, down from 2.38 per cent in February, driven largely by a sharp decline in food prices, official data released on Tuesday showed.
On a year-on-year basis, however, inflation edged up from 0.26 per cent in March 2024.
“The positive rate of inflation in March 2025 is primarily due to a rise in prices of food products, other manufactured goods, food articles, electricity, and textiles,” the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement.
Food inflation eased significantly to 1.57 per cent in March from 3.38 per cent in February, aided by a steep 15.88 per cent deflation in vegetable prices – sharply wider than the 5.80 per cent drop recorded a month earlier.
Meanwhile, inflation in manufactured products inched up to 3.07 per cent from 2.86 per cent in February, while the fuel and power segment posted a marginal rise in inflation at 0.20 per cent, reversing from a deflation of 0.71 per cent in the previous month.
