Tag: Output

    The country's large scale manufacturing (LSM) sector has witnessed growth of 3.45 per cent during the first 11 months of the year (2015-16) as...

It's the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan, the country's intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are...

According to quarterly security assessment report of Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think tank, a marked reduction in overall...

With an increase in crude oil supplies from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) plans an investment of $100 million this year...

Japan's industrial output rose at the second fastest pace on record in May, signalling a continuing recovery for the economy from the impact of...

The Ministry for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has said that the private sector contractors would be used to enhance the poor levels...

Weather conditions in Pakistan are expected to have a positive effect on cotton production in coming days. Cotton production is expected to rise nine...

With the sowing period underway, the cotton production target has emerged as a central concern. As world cotton production is expected to improve by...

The country's largest exploration company, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited's (OGDCL) has witnessed declining production from its mature oil fields, necessitating tangible measures...

The government plans to utilise all viable options to enhance upstream oil and gas production through expansion of operations in restricted security zones, meeting...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is estimated to have produced 4.1 million tonnes of sugar from the 2010/11 crop, industry officials said on Wednesday, adding there was no need to import the sweetener this year, given ample stocks.
The new estimate is up nearly 400,000 tonnes from the previous projection despite initial fears that output would fall because of massive summer floods in 2010 that damaged several crops, including sugarcane.
"Sugar output from the 2010/11 crop has reached

TEHRAN - Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi said that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will not increase its crude output.
"Prices were pushed up by political crises in some countries of North Africa and the Persian Gulf, as well as due to the global economic recovery," said Mirkazemi.
Despite the hike of crude price to over 100 U.S. dollars per barrel, extraordinary meeting is not necessary over an increase in the crude output of the

KARACHI - Cotton output, up till March 15, has declined by an annual 8.7 percent, standing at 11.57 million bales compared to 12.68 million bales in the corresponding period last year, figures released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) revealed. Cotton output increased by an annual 165 percent and reached 72,000 bales. Punjab has contributed 67 percent (7.78 million bales) in total cotton arrived so far, while Sindh has contributed 33 percent (3.79 million bales)

LAHORE - Average production of wheat crop in Punjab province is only one third of its potential. The yield can be doubled within a few years by reestablishing linkages between agricultural education, research and extension activities.
This was stated by Vice Chancellor University of Agriculture Faisalabad Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan while speaking to a delegation of Agriculture Journalists Association (AJA) who called on him during the ongoing UAF Golden Jubilee Festival. UAF

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's sugarcane crushing season is likely to draw to a close with the production of 3.4 million tonnes of sugar and the country is not likely to face any sugar crisis as high prices have reduced consumption of sugar. According to an official source, mills have so far produced 3.2 million tons of sugar and they were likely to produce another 200,000 tons before the season comes to an end. The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) have stocks of 445,000 tons from the

PARIS - Unrest in Libya has almost wiped out production in its key oil sector, slashing output by 1.4 million barrels a day to under 300,000, the head of French oil giant Total indicated. "Oil production in Libya must have fallen to between 200,000 and 300,000 barrels a day maximum," the chief executive of Total, Christophe de Margerie, told reporters in Paris. "There are about 1.4 million barrels a day less" than normal, since the start of an uprising against Libyan ruler Moamer

LONDON - Oil prices dropped on Tuesday, with North Sea Brent crude dipping briefly below $113 per barrel, after Kuwait's oil minister said OPEC was considering boosting production for the first time in more than two years. An official increase in OPEC output would signal the group's determination to put a cap on prices after uprisings and unrest across North Africa and the Middle East sent oil to its highest in more than two and a half years.
Fighting in Libya has idled as much