{"id":7416,"date":"2020-12-04T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:44:21","slug":"spi-consistently-in-single-digit-sugar-price-reduced-by-7-5-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/04\/spi-consistently-in-single-digit-sugar-price-reduced-by-7-5-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SPI consistently in single digit; sugar price reduced by 7.5 pc\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said on Friday that the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) recorded another decrease of 0.23 per cent this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter message, Asad Umar said that the sugar price reduced sharply by 7.5 per cent this week after a decline of nearly 5 per cent last week.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the reduction in the inflation rate has been sustained now for the past several weeks with SPI consistently in single digit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=arynewsofficial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1334746169596108800&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Farynews.tv%2Fen%2Fasad-umar-spi-sugar-price-inflation%2F&amp;siteScreenName=arynewsofficial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1334746169596108800\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan had said that the ex-mill price of sugar came down by Rs20 per kilogram in 20 days due to the government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/en\/pm-imran-sugar-price-down-govt-efforts\/\">effective intervention<\/a>\u00a0in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, PM Khan said the distribution of imported sugar at control rates and timely start of the crushing season was also ensured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistribution of imported sugar at control rates and timely start of crushing season also ensured. I have asked provinces to ensure fair and swift cane payments are made to farmers,\u201d he wrote on his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>The premier has also asked provinces to ensure fair and swift cane payments to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that the sugar prices in the country have witnessed a decline in wholesale and retail markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said on Friday that the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) recorded another decrease of 0.23 per cent this week. In a Twitter message, Asad Umar said that the sugar price reduced sharply by 7.5 per cent this week after a decline of nearly 5 per cent last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}