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Industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.7% month-on-month in February, led by a 3.8% decline in the energy output. Production in mining and quarrying increased 4.4% in March and manufacturing rose 0.1%.
On a yearly basis, industrial production decreased a working-day adjusted 2.6% in February. On an unadjusted basis, industrial production rose 4.5% monthly in February and fell 3.2% from a year ago, the INS said on April 14.