Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.17. / Trend N. Ismayilova /
In January 2010 the amount of industrial production in Azerbaijan hit 2.543 billion manat, which is 13.5 percent higher than the same period of 2009, the State Statistics Committee reported.
The amount of production in the extractive industry increased by 16.7 percent to 1.93 billion manat (with weight 75.9percent).The specific weight of the processing industry hit 17.8 percent, gas and power engineering -5.9 percent and water sector - 0.4 percent. The growth of the oil production hit 17.6 percent to 4.269 million tons and gas production - 16.8 percent to 2.268 billion cubic meters.
In January share of the private sector hit 4/5 of the total industry production.
The amount of the production in processing industry amounted to 452.6 million manat. During the reported period, significant growth was observed in food production. The production of pasta in the country increased by 40.3% to 386.2 tons, meat - 3.9 percent (13,800 tons), milk - 3% (53,000 tons), butter - 0.9 percent (1,200 tons), jams and preserves - at 10.8 percent (0.6 thousand tons), margarine - 36.8 percent (2,000 tons).
Feb.17, the official exchange rate is 0.8032 manat to $1.
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