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Milk, Cigarette, Surf Excel: What has become costlier

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In short

Major brands including Amul, Mother Dairy, Nandini, and Aavin have adjusted prices upward on everyday items like liquid milk, butter, and ghee. A significant local supply deficit of roughly 10 lakh litres in Karnataka prompted steep increases of up to Rs 12 per litre on Nandini milk. Outside the dairy sector, consumers are also absorbing steeper retail costs for commercial LPG, detergents, and ITC cigarettes.

Key points

  • Rising procurement costs and adverse weather conditions have driven regional dairy cooper…: Rising procurement costs and adverse weather conditions have driven regional dairy cooperatives to broadly lift retail consumer prices.
  • Essential and value-added dairy products like butter, curd, and ghee have seen compoundin…: Essential and value-added dairy products like butter, curd, and ghee have seen compounding adjustments across multiple southern states.
  • Non-dairy essentials including household detergents, commercial LPG, and tobacco products…: Non-dairy essentials including household detergents, commercial LPG, and tobacco products are concurrently adding to broader consumer expenditure pressure.

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Ghee, butter, detergents and soap have also seen price increases. ITC has raised the price of its Gold Flake Premium cigarette pack, while commercial LPG cylinders have become costlier for the second consecutive month.

The following is a breakdown of the reported price changes. Some increases are limited to specific markets, including Delhi-NCR, Karnataka, Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu.

1. Mother Dairy raises milk prices by Rs 2-4 per litre from November 12

Mother Dairy increased milk prices by Rs 2 to Rs 4 per litre in Delhi-NCR from November 12, citing higher procurement costs and increased expenses for farmers. The revised prices apply to its liquid milk variants, reported by ET, citing PTI, on Nov 11.The revised prices are:

Milk variant | Earlier price per litre | New price per litre | Increase |

Toned milk (bulk vending) | Rs 58 | Rs 60 | Rs 2 |

Full-cream milk (pouch) | Rs 72 | Rs 76 | Rs 4 |

Toned milk (pouch) | Rs 60 | Rs 62 | Rs 2 |

Double-toned milk | Rs 54 |…

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