Islamabad
Domestic production of cooking oil during first half of current financial year increased by 1.39 percent as compared the production of corresponding period of last year. During the period from July December 2020-21, about 217,441 tons of cooking oil manufactured as compared the manufacturing of 214,989 tons of same period of last year, according the provisional quantum indices of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) for December 2020 released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
The Quantum Indices of LSMI have been compiled with base year 2005-06 on the basis of latest data supplied by the source agencies. On month on month basis, domestic manufacturing of cooking oil was recorded at 39,137 tons in December, 2020 as compared the production of 39,971 tons of the corresponding month of last year.—APP
