Food sector exports record 5.4% growth by end of August — JIC

AMMAN — Food sector exports increased by 5.4 per cent in the first eight months of 2019, compared with the same period of 2018. Muhammad Jitan, representative of the sector at the Jordan Chamber of Industry, said that the value of exports during the January-August period of 2019 totalled JD237 million, compared with JD224 million in the first eight months of 2018, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Jitan noted that the sector's production amounts to 23 per cent of the Kingdom’s total industrial production, with an annual value of JD4 billion, adding that the food sector comprises some 15 per cent, or 2,645 of the total number of industrial facilities in Jordan.

The sector provides some 50,000 jobs with a total registered capital of JD641 million and assets of JD2 billion, he pointed out.