Kyrgyzstan'S Footwear Industry Slumped In The First Half

Recently, a spokesman for the Ministry of industry and energy of Kyrgyzstan announced to the media that industrial output of 36 billion 300 million SOM (about US $1 billion 37 million) was achieved in the first half of the year, an increase of 6% over the same period last year. If we do not calculate the output of Kom gold, the output value will be 24 billion 400 million SOM (about 697 million US dollars), an increase of 1.4% over the same period last year.

Among them, coal mining increased by 34% compared with the same period last year, pulp grew by 10.5%, textiles increased by 23.4%, wood processing products increased by 39.2%, chemical products increased by 48.9%, metallurgy and metal products increased by 12.9%, and electromechanical and electronic products increased by 17.6%.

At the same time, the output of some industries declined, of which the electricity industry dropped 1.5%, oil and natural gas production decreased by 1.5%, coke, petrochemical products and nuclear materials output decreased by 21.2%, plastic products decreased by 27%, and non-metallic products dropped by 9.8%.

The output of leather products and shoes dropped by 27.3%.