The total export earnings during the July-September period of 2010-11 fiscal also exceeded the strategic target by 12.33 per cent, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) figures revealed.
In the first quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal the country's overall export earnings were recorded at $ 3,869.10 million, the figures showed.
Of the total, the export receipts from knitwear items registered a 31.91 per cent increase to reach $ 2,181.28 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal over the same period of the last fiscal.
The export earning from knitwear items also surpassed the $ 1,725.85-mil-lion target by 26.39 per cent, the EPB data showed.
On the other hand, the export receipts from woven garments during the July-September period of the 2010-11 fiscal grew by 30 per cent over the corresponding period of the last fiscal.
The country fetched $ 17.90.24 million from export of woven garments in the first three months of the current fiscal, which was 11.84 per cent up from the target, the EPB figures showed.
Among other sectors, earnings from the export of frozen food during the last July-September period increased by 35.29 per cent to $ 121.91 million and that of jute and jute goods rose by 33.95 per cent to reach $ 209 million.
The EPB figures, however, showed that the export earnings from jute and jute goods fell short of the $ 269.92-million worth of strategic target by 22.38 per cent during the last July-September period.
A 42 per cent rise was recorded in the export of leather during the July-September period of the current fiscal over the same period of the last fiscal while the export earnings from leather products also marked a steep rise by 211 per cent over the same period of the last fiscal.
The country earned $ 64 million by exporting leather and $ 12.67 million from leather goods during the first quarter of the current fiscal compared to $ 45 million and $ 4.0 million in the corresponding period of last fiscal, the EPB figures showed.
Export earnings from agricultural products also marked a significant rise by 40 per cent to stand at $ 94 million in the first quarter of the 2010-11 fiscal in comparison with the matching period of the last fiscal.
-FE, Sat, 16/10/2010
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