By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha MSME, Energy and Industry Minister Pratap Deb on Friday said, total export turnover from Odisha was Rs 52,677.09 crore in the financial year 2017-18, which was increased to Rs 1,27,197.66 crore during 2021-22.
Barring the financial year 2018-19, the export from the state recorded a positive growth on each passing year, he said.
The total export from the state stood at Rs 48,119.60 crore in 2018-19, which was increased by 7.53 per cent to Rs 51,742.32 crore in 2019-20 and again by 55.42 per cent in 2020-21 to Rs 80,419.33 crore.
Further, the export turnover from Odisha witnessed a growth of 58.17 per cent during the last financial year.
As per the reply, metallurgical, minerals, engineering/ chemical allied, marine and software products are the major contributors to the state’s export turnover.
Odisha has exported metallurgical products worth Rs 86,726.64 crore, minerals of Rs 19,374.27 crore, engineering/ chemical allied products of Rs 15,496.37 crore and Rs 4,462.08 crore marine products during the last year.
