Bali's Canned Fish Exports Up 58.35 Pct

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Bali's canned fish exports contributed 10.39  million US dollars in the January-April 2012 period, a 58.35 percent increase from 6.56 million US dollars in the same period last year.

In term of volume, the exports also increased 52.98 percent from  2,447.8 tons in last year's first four months to 3,774.7 tons in the same period this year, Head of the Bali administration public relations division I Ketut Teneng said here on Wednesday.

He said last year's results from the same commodities reached  22.37 million dollars, a 6.29 percent increase from 21.04 million dollars a year earlier.

One of the seven different commodities produced by the processing industry has reached the export market and had been substantially influenced  by foreign markets and the availability of the commodity in Bali.

Ketut Teneng also said that Bali is regularly producing canned fish of good quality in the hope to become competitive and attractive to foreign consumers.(IGT/T007)