ISLAMABAD: Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) has registered a significant 10.4 per cent growth during first nine months (July – March) of the current fiscal year, according to Economic Survey of Pakistan 2021/2022 released on Thursday.
According to the survey, the performance of LSM stood tremendous with 10.4 percent growth during July-March 2021/2022 as compared to growth of 4.2 percent same period last year.
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The prudent measures and continuous support along with rising global demand, easy access to credit, and partially subsidized energy supplies bode well in boosting the business sentiments and achieving higher growth of LSM.
On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, LSM grew by 26.6 percent in March FY2022 against 22.5 percent growth in the same month last year. However, on a month-on-month (m-o-m) basis LSM marked the growth of 8.2 percent in March 2022 against 3.7 percent in February 2022.
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Out of 22 subsectors, 17 posted growth during July-March FY2022. The performance was broad-based on the back of strong growth of high weighted sectors such as Textile, Food, Wearing Apparel, Chemicals, Automobile, Tobacco, Iron & Steel Products along with Furniture, Wood Products, and Footballs.
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The Mining and Quarrying sector remained negative at 4.47 percent during July-March FY2022 as against the growth of 1.21 percent last year. This sector is lagging behind despite huge potential, due to interconnected and cross-cutting issues like poor regulatory framework, insufficient infrastructure at mines sites, outdated technology installed, semi-skilled labor, low financial support, and lack of marketing. Production of major minerals such as Coal, Natural Gas, Chromite, Crude Oil, and Barytes witnessed a growth of 8.34, 3.45, 25.7, 4.48, and 162.5 percent, respectively.
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However, some witnessed negative growth during the period under review such as Magnesite 52.3 percent, Gypsum 36.9 percent, Lime stone 33.3 percent, Ocher 25.5, Rock Salt 24.2 percent, and Marble 22.9 percent.
