The National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD) reports that industrial production, excluding cotton ginning, increased last April by 31.3% compared to its level for the same period of the year. previous.In the first four months of 2021, industrial production increased by 18.8% compared to the corresponding period of 2020, ANSD said. This upward trend is attributable to the performance noted in the extractive (+69.9%), manufacturing (+32.9%) and environmental (+12.5%) industries, underlined in a note dedicated to the Index industrial production prices (IHPI). The report indicates that at the end of April, cotton ginning activity emerged up 26.4% compared to the cumulative over the first four months of 2020.