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Industrial production in Ukraine 2.1% up in March 2021 - statistics
26.04.2021 10:09 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Industrial production in Ukraine in March 2021 increased by 2.1% compared to March 2020, which was the first month of the introduction of quarantine due to COVID-19, and the growth adjusted for the effect of calendar days was 2.4%, the State Statistics Service has said. The department indicated that the growth of industrial production in March 2021 amounted to 10.9% against the previous month, and on a seasonally adjusted basis — 1.8%. In the supply of electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air in March 2021 from March 2020, an increase was 7.3%, in processing industry — 2.5%, while the reduction in production in extracting industry was 1.5%. The State Statistics Service clarified that in the first quarter of 2021 in relation to the same period a year earlier, industrial production in Ukraine decreased by 2%, in particular in mining industry — by 2.8%, processing — by 3.3%, although the supply of electricity, gas and steam gains 4.1% due to substantially colder weather. As reported, industrial production in Ukraine in 2020 fell by 5.2% after falling by 0.5% a year earlier. At the same time, in December last year, for the first time since May 2019, its growth was recorded compared to the same period last year — by 4.8%.«Èíòåðôàêñ-Óêðàèíà»
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