& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Exports grow 14pc in FY05

JASIM UDDIN KHAN
The country's export earnings amounted to US$8.65 billion in 2004-05 fiscal year, posting around 14 percent growth over the previous fiscal year.
The exports surpassed the target by more than $88.74 million. According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), export earnings in the previous fiscal year were $7.60 billion.
Woven garment is still the highest export earner. It fetched $3.59 billion followed by knitwear $2.81 billion, frozen foods $420 million, jute goods $307 million and leather $220 million.
Home textile, chemical fertilizer, raw jute and farm products are the other notable export earners, fetching $156 million, $130 million, $96 million and $82 million.
Electronics goods, engineering products and farm products witnessed the highest response from the overseas markets, registering 122 percent, 103 percent and 100 percent growth over the previous financial year.
"These three products could be potential export earners for the
country in the near future despite the fact that they earned a minor amount of foreign currency this year," a high official of the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday.
Pharmaceutical products, chemical fertilizer, knitwear and jute goods also registered growth, maintaining 67 percent, 61 percent, 31 percent and 24 percent growth over the previous year.
Knitwear, jute goods, raw jute, computer services, ceramic table-
ware, footwear, handicrafts, chemical products and home textile have achieved their respective targets during the period.
Meanwhile, export earnings from some major products faced a downfall either in quantity of export or in price of the products due to changing world market scenario and limitations of product variance, sources said.
Export earnings from leather and tea declined by 15.88 percent and
10.37 percent during the period.
While export prices of frozen foods, oven garments, raw jute and chemical fertilizer decreased by 0.99 percent, 0.23 percent, 0.05 percent and 6.93 percent, the EPB sources said.
The USA, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Iran still remain the major destinations of the country's export products.