Industrial production in February 2008 reached VND5,537.2 billion.

The reason for lower industrial output value compared with January is that February coincides with Lunar Tet holiday in the year of Mouse and that the holiday is quite long, average from 6 to 10 days. However, before Tet due to preparing for goods for Tet, especially consumer products such as garments, foodstuff, beverage, products consumed for everyday activities,., although monthly production value is decreasing trivially, some industries still maintain their increasing production rate such as beverage processing, foodstuff industry,.. Compared with production value in January, that in February down 8% but the total of that in two first months of this year up 19.5 % against the same period last year.

Reported by Hoang Anh, Translated by THKC.