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Who can put the toothpaste of inflation back in its tube?

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s food price index rose 13 per cent last month to stand a third higher than a year ago. Within the index, cereals rose by 17 per cent – driven by interrupted Ukrainian and Russian wheat supplies – and vegetable oils by 23 per cent, Ukraine being the world’s biggest sunflower farmer.

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