Edible oil, ghee output increased 11.73% and 4.26% in 07 months.

ISLAMABAD -- Domestic production of cooking oil and vegetable ghee during the seven months of current financial year increased by 11.73 percent and 4.26 percent respectively as compared to the output of the corresponding period of last year.

During the period from July-January, 2022-23 about 301,185 metric tons of cooking oil manufactured in the country as compared to the manufacturing of 296,567 metric tons of the same period of last year, according to the quantum index number of large-scale manufacturing industries released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

On year on year basis, the local output of edible oil also grew by 11.22 percent in January, 2023 as about domestic production of the above-mentioned commodity was recorded at 48,160 metric tons as against the production of 43,300 metric tons of the same month of last year.

Meanwhile, domestic production of vegetable ghee grew...

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