Wholesale inflation for the month of June stood at 5.77 per cent against 4.43 per cent of May and 0.90 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year, according to official data released on Monday.The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 1.1 per cent to 141.7 (provisional) from 140.1 (provisional) for the month of June due to higher price of egg (5 per cent), fruits vegetables (4 per cent), maize and fish-marine (3 per cent each), jowar (2 per cent) and barley, bajra, beef buffalo meat, wheat, coffee, condiments spices, milk and poultry chicken (1 per cent each).
However, the price of betel leaves (14 per cent), urad, arhar and gram (2 per cent each) and ragi, masur and moong (1 per cent each) declined.