BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9. The growth rate of production of industrial facilities of the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan from January through April 2023 reached 4.8 percent, Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen media.
This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Batyr Atdaev at a meeting of the government.
According to him, in the reporting period, the growth rate of trade turnover amounted to 4.3 percent year-on-year.
Furthermore, Atdaev noted that in the first four years of this year, according to the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan, the growth rate of agricultural and food production reached 29.2 percent, and industrial production – 9.1 percent year-on-year.
At the meeting, the results of the government's work in the economic sphere for 4 months of 2023 were summed up, draft documents were considered and priority tasks of the socio-economic development of the country were discussed.
