Prices Of Key Food Items To Stay Stable During Festival Season: Official

The secretary was briefing the media on the domestic supply and prices of key essential food items like wheat, rice, sugar and edible oils.

Prices of essential food items will remain stable during the festival season, Union Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra on Thursday said.

The decision on allowing sugar exports during the current 2023-24 marketing year (October-September) will be taken after the agriculture ministry comes out with the production estimates of sugarcane, he added.

The secretary was briefing the media on the domestic supply and prices of key essential food items like wheat, rice, sugar and edible oils.