What does food basket mean with reference to inflation. - Vidyadip

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What does food basket mean with reference to inflation.

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Food basket (also called farmer's basket) consists of specified food items of daily individual consumption. The average price is taken as a measure of food inflation.
A constant rise in the price level of all agricultural food item is called food inflation.

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