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West Bengal Bakers Raise One-Pound Bread Price by Rs 4

West Bengal Bakers Raise One-Pound Bread Price by Rs 4
Price spike: Local bakery breads turn costlier after association approves Rs 4 increase in one-pound loaf price - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

Bread is a food that many people eat every day.

In a place called West Bengal in India, bread is made by many small bakeries.

These bakeries have to buy things like flour, sugar, and oil to make bread.

Lately, these ingredients have become more expensive.

So the bakeries decided they needed to charge more money for their bread.

A group called the West Bengal Bakers' Association said the price of one loaf of bread would go up by 4 rupees.

The loaf used to cost 32 rupees and now costs 36 rupees.

Bigger bread brands had already raised their prices before the small bakeries did.

The bakeries are telling shop owners to explain the new price to customers.

They hope people will understand why bread costs a little more now.

Key facts

Old price (one-pound loaf)
₹32
New price (one-pound loaf)
₹36
Price increase
₹4
Decision date
August 8
Flour price rise
₹400 per quintal in the past month
Local bakeries in Bengal
Around 3,000
Association members
About 1,000
Retailer adjustment period
15 days

Quotes

Ariful Islam

CEO of the West Bengal Bakers’ Association

“The wholesale price of flour has risen by ₹400 per quintal in the past month. Sugar and dalda have also become much costlier. Packaging costs have gone up as well because of the unrest in West Asia. We had our backs to the wall.”
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“We tried to hold back the price hike for some time, but the increase in raw material costs left us with no choice.”
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