Food inflation goes up 9.28% in May

New Delhi: In view of the lockdown, the central government on Friday released only a part of the retail inflation data, which indicates that food prices have gone up by 9.28 per cent in May.

"All India year-on-year inflation rates for Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) for the month of May 2020 for Rural, Urban and Combined sector are 9.69 per cent, 8.36 per cent and 9.28 per cent respectively," said an official press release.

In May 2019, the food inflation was 1.83 per cent as per the full CPI data released for that period. The government for the second month in a row released the truncated data on retail inflation in the backdrop of the lockdown following Covid-19 pandemic.