WPI inflation September 2025: Wholesale prices slip to 0.13 pc as food items become cheaper

WPI inflation September 2025 : Wholesale price inflation ( WPI ) declined to 0.13 per cent in September due to lower prices of food articles, fuel and manufactured goods, according to government data released on Tuesday.

Last year, wholesale price index based inflation was 0.52 percent in August and 1.91 percent in September.

"Positive rate of inflation in September 2025 is primarily due to an increase in prices of the manufacture of food products, other manufacturing, non-food articles, other transport equipment and textiles, etc," the industry ministry said in a statement.

According to Wholesale Price Index (WPI) data, deflation in food articles stood at 5.22 percent in September, compared to 3.06 percent in August. Vegetable prices also declined. Vegetable deflation stood at 24.41 percent in September, compared to 14.18 percent in August.

In the case of manufactured products, inflation eased to 2.33 per cent, against 2.55 per cent in August.

Fuel and power witnessed a negative inflation or deflation of 2.58 per cent in September, against 3.17 per cent in the previous month.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which takes into account retail inflation, had kept benchmark policy rates unchanged at 5.5 per cent earlier this month. Retail inflation fell to an 8-year low of 1.5 per cent in September, official data released on Monday showed.

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