Food prices

The April Food Price Index is out.

• Food prices down 0.2% on a year ago
• Food prices up 7.4% since Dec 2008, over four and a third years.
• Food prices increased 14.2% in the four years and four months to Dec 2008
• Fruit and veges have increased only 4.3% since Dec 2008
• Fruit and veges increased 20.6% in the four years and four months to Dec 2008

It seems the best way to keep the price of fruit and vegetables down has nothing to do with silly policies about removing GST on them.