Pakistan see growth in cotton yarn and cloth production

Pakistan’s domestic production of cotton yarn and cotton cloth witnessed growth by 0.67 percent and 0.43 percent respectively during first eight months of current financial year as compared the production of the corresponding period of last year.

According the computation of Quantum Index Numbers of large scale manufacturing industries released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, cotton yarn production during the month of February, 2017 was recorded at 287,100 tones as against the production of 281,185 tons of same month of last year.

Meanwhile, cotton cloth production in the country during the period under review was registered at 696,750 thousand square meter as compared the production of 693,733 square meters of same period of last year.

On month on month basis, cotton cloth production was recorded at 87,300 square meters in month of February, 2017, as compared the production of 86,100 square meters of same month of last year.

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