According to the Can Tho City Statistics Office, in the first 9 months of the year, industrial production activities in the area continued to improve. Some key production sectors such as rice milling; food processing; and garment production grew quite well, contributing to the industrial production index in the first 9 months of 2024 increasing by 8.02% over the same period last year.
Processing and manufacturing industry increased by 8.41%; electricity production and distribution increased by 6.52%; water supply, waste and wastewater management and treatment activities increased by 1.33%.
Processing and manufacturing industries with high IIP index compared to the same period last year include: mineral fertilizers and NPK chemical fertilizers increased more than 2 times; ready-made clothes increased by 93.37%; animal feed increased by 19.99%; frozen fillets increased by 17.10%,...
Meanwhile, some processing and manufacturing industries had IIP index decrease compared to the same period including iron and steel down 0.66%; bird's nest drink and other nutritious drinks down 2.67%; canned beer down 4.98%; aquatic feed down 27.93%...
The consumption index of the entire processing and manufacturing industry in the first 9 months of 2024 increased by 1.55%. In particular, processing and preserving aquatic products and aquatic products; milling; beer production; production of non-alcoholic beverages and mineral water; printing; garment sewing (except fur garments); production of fertilizers and nitrogen compounds; production of plastic products; production of other metal products not elsewhere classified;... are the manufacturing industries with increasing indexes.
On the contrary, the consumption index in the industries of food production, livestock, poultry and aquatic products; footwear production; pharmaceutical production; cement, lime and plaster production decreased compared to the same period.
The index of labor utilization in industrial enterprises in September 2024 is estimated to increase by 6.12% over the same period last year. Labor in state-owned enterprises and non-state enterprises is estimated to decrease by 0.29% and 9.98% over the same period, respectively.
Foreign direct investment enterprises are estimated to increase by 31.36% over the same period.According to the report of a foreign-invested shoe sole manufacturing enterprise, the enterprise is recruiting more workers to serve the production and business of the unit in the last months of the year when customer orders are increasing.Therefore, the labor force of foreign-invested enterprises has increased over the same period.
