April 3, 2010 8:47 PM

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Food prices expected to fall this month: Finance Minister

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says, he expects food prices to start falling with the harvest of winter crop this month and also because of imports of essential commodities.<br/><br/>He said in Shillong today that the government is doing whatever is possible. Private sector undertakings are also importing. He said prices of sugar internationally have come down because of supply from Brazil, and hoped it would fall further. Mukherjee said very few countries produce pulses and the international prices are also high.

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