NAFA Price Monitor

Prices by city

Click a city on the map to add it to the comparison.

Compare cities and states

A state's line is the simple average of its reporting cities on each day.

Latest prices for your selection

Daily price

Change from the same month a year earlier (monthly averages, %)

All India (Department of Consumer Affairs)

Zone averages

Retail, wholesale and mandi prices (Rs per kg)

Mandi prices are converted from Rs per quintal to Rs per kg. For a state, retail and wholesale are averages of its reporting cities, and mandi is the average across its markets.
Modal prices in Rs per quintal. A state's line averages all its markets reporting that day; All India weights each state by its number of market reports; a market's line averages its varieties.

Daily modal price (Rs per quintal)

Change from the same month a year earlier (monthly averages, %)

City prices (retail and wholesale)

Collected every night at 23:00.

Mandi prices: daily refresh runs

Collected every evening at 19:30 from data.gov.in.

New mandi names

Commodities, varieties, grades, districts and markets appearing in the data for the first time, checked every night after the refresh.

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about this data

This site has an MCP connector. Add it once, then ask questions in plain language, such as "How have onion retail prices in Chennai and Mumbai moved over the last year?" or "Which states had the highest mandi price for tur this month?"

Connector address:

Claude

In Claude's settings, open Connectors, choose to add a custom connector, give it a name such as NAFA Price Monitor, and paste the address above. No login is needed.

ChatGPT

In ChatGPT's settings, open the connectors or apps section, turn on developer mode if asked, create a new connector, and paste the address above with no authentication. Availability depends on your ChatGPT plan.

What it can look up

Commodity and city lists; daily retail and wholesale prices for any cities or states; every city's price on a given date; All India and zone figures; and mandi prices by state or market. Long date ranges are returned as monthly averages.