During the period from July-March, 2016-17, 2.572 million tons of cotton yarn produced in the country as compared the production of 2.552 million tons of the same period of last year. According the computation of Quantum Index Numbers of large scale manufacturing industries, domestic yarn production in Month of March, 2017 was recorded at 287,450 tons as against 282,695 tons of same month of last year. Meanwhile, in last 9 months of about 784.250 million square meters of cotton cloth were produced, which were recorded at 780.233 million square meters in the corresponding period of last year.
Domestic production of cotton cloth was recorded at 87,500 thousand square meters in month of Mach as against 86,500 square meters of same month of last year. However, during the period under review, jute goods production decreased by 7.95 percent as was recorded at 41,793 tons as against 45,402 tons of same period of last year.
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