The manufacturing industries; manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products, manufacture of fabricated metal products and manufacture of textiles have shown remarkable increases of 33.7%, 19.1% and 15.6% respectively in volume of production of these industries during the month of June, 2018 compared to that of June, 2017. The volume of food products has increased by 0.8%.

However, manufacturing industries: volume of manufacture of paper and paper products, Manufacture of electrical equipment’ and ‘Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations’ have reported decreases by 27.4%, 24.0% and 18.1% respectively during this period.

The industrial production of the manufacturing sector for the second quarter of 2018 has increased by 0.6% compared to the same quarter in 2017.