Without access to warehouses and cold chains, farm goods can rot. The Centre hopes to smoothen bottlenecks through realtime updates in its call centre, an official said, requesting anonymity. However, food prices have gone up sharply in April, Sabnavis said. There appears to be three main supply-side constraints that have driven up food prices not yet captured officially. One, arrivals (of farm commodities) in APMC markets have plunged sharply.

Source: Hindustan Times April 14, 2020 11:01 UTC