India, May 3 -- Rising international quotations for meat, cereals and vegetable oils offset drops for dairy and sugar

The benchmark for world food commodity prices edged higher in April, as rising meat prices and modest upticks for vegetable oils and cereals more than offset decreases for sugar and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)reported.TheFAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally-traded food commodities, averaged 119.1 points in April, up 0.3 per cent from its revised March level, while down 9.6 per cent from its year-earlier level.The FAO Cereal Price Index rose 0.3 per cent from March, ending a three-month declining trajectory....