Skyrocketing prices of onion and other vegetables pushed inflation to an eight-month high of 7 per cent in October 2013. The inflation measured on the wholesale price index (WPI) was at 6.46 per cent in September 2013 and had stood at 7.32 per cent in the October 2012.
As per the Government data which came out on Thursday, the rate of price rise in food articles was at 18.19 per cent in October. The jump in WPI inflation comes after the October retail inflation increased to 10.1 per cent, the highest in the past seven months.
While inflation in the vegetable segment stood at 78.38 per cent in October, the rate of price rise in onion continued to remain high at 278.21 per cent.Protein rich items like egg, meat and fish became dearer by 17.47 per cent against 13.37 per cent in September.