MUMBAI: The prices of household staple 'daal-chawal' (lentils and rice—daily Indian food) have started rising in Mumbai due to scarcity of truckers, higher freight charges and lack of packaging and storage facilities at the city’s local kirana stores and popular grocery retailers such as D-mart, Reliance Fresh, Grofers, Spencer’s and so on in the wake of the covid-19 lockdown.
Over the past one week, average prices of foodgrains such as rice, wheat flour, pulses, lentils, grams and sugar have risen by 5-10% in Mumbai, even as the city’s APMC market for food-grains is trying to procure and supply enough goods to the city’s distributors. “We have delivered 4-5 lakh bags or about 2 lakh metric tonnes of food grains all over Mumbai over the