Bali’s foreign exchange revenue of 40.38 million US dollars from nonoil/gas exports in January 2011 dropped 13.39 pct compared to 46.46 million US dollars in last year’s same month. The forex revenue also dropped 19.19 pct compared to 49.98 million US dollars earned in December 2010, the Bali industrial and trade agency here said on Wednesday.
The forex revenue was still supported by small and household handicraft industries with a contribution of 75 pct. The products of small industries including canned fish exports, house components, shoes, hand bags and textile as well as textile products worth 16.53 million US dollars contributing 35.46 pct of Bali’s total forex revenue in January 2010.
Likewise, handicraft products contributed 20.10 million US dollars in foreign exchange revenue or 43.10 pct of Bali’s total exports. In the meantime, farm products in the widest sense of the term reached 9.51 million US dollars, or 20 pct of Bali’s total exports.
According to publication and documentation head of the public relations and protocol bureau of Bali’s provincial administration I Ketut Teneng the exports of farm products are dominated by the sending of fishery and marine commodities. Bali’s fishery products reaching the export market included live aquarium fish, carps, crabs, kerapu fish, nener fish, tuna, shrimps and sea weed.
In the meantime, Bali’s handicraft articles which reached foreign markets included musical instruments, plaited products, bamboo handicrafts, hardened soil, statues and furniture, in addition to ceramics, mollusks and their shells, leather, candle and artistic articles, and articles made of bone, Ketut Teneng said.
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