OREANDA-NEWS. November 26, 2010. Industrial enterprises of all ownership forms of Moldova produced goods in January-October 2010 in the amount of 21.45 billion leis (USD1.8 billion), up 7.6% compared to the same period last year.

The growth of industrial production resulted from the increase in production of processing enterprises – by 8.2%, enterprises of the energy sector, resulting in the increase of the total production volumes by 7% and 0.5%, respectively. The growth of industrial production for 10 months of this year was registered by enterprises producing clothes – by 9.6%, cigarettes –by 40.7%, wine – by 9.2%, dairy production – by 9%, shoes – by 21.3%, production of machines and equipment – by 31.3%.

The volumes of production, processing and canning of meat and meat products increased for this period by 4.7%, production of varnishes and paints increased by 15.2%, suitcases and bags – by 25.5%, medicines – by 25%. In January-October of this year, production of forage for animals increased by 11.3%. Growth in the metallurgic industry was 6.6%, production of furniture – by 1.5%. At the same time, production of vegetable and animal oil reduced by 12.4%, other non-metal mineral products – by 3.1%.