Domestic tractors assembling shrinks by 37.22%

Tractors manufacturing in the country during the first seven months of the current financial year decreased by 37.22 percent as compared to the manufacturing of the corresponding period of last year. During the period from July-January 2019 to 20, some 17, 354 units of tractors were locally assembled as against the assembling of 27,644 units of the same period of the last year.

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According to the data of large-scale manufacturing industries, tractors manufacturing reduced by 59 percent in the month of January 2020 as compared to the manufacturing of the same month of the last year. In January 2020, about 638 tractors were assembled locally as against the assembling of 1,675 tractors of the same month of the last year.

Meanwhile, trucks assembling also decreased by 52.82 percent in the last seven months as about 2,050 trucks were locally manufactured against 4,222 trucks of the same period of last year.

During the period under review about 2,050 trucks were assembled as against the assembling of 4,256 trucks of the same period of last year.

According to the data during the first seven months, the local assembling of buses decreased by 36.81 percent, whereas the manufacturing of jeeps and cars decreased by 45.99 percent respectively.

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