Bangladesh's export income in the first two months of the current 2013-14 fiscal year (July 2013 to June 2014) surged about 15 percent to over 5 billion U.S. dollars with readymade garments as the key performer, an official said Wednesday.

The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official, who preferred to be unnamed, told Xinhua that the South Asian country earned a total of 5,037.73 million U.S. dollars from export during July-August compared to 4,390.56 million U.S. dollars in the same period a year earlier.

Quoting the EPB data, he said export performance for August was 2.01 billion U.S. dollars, 3.18 percent higher than that in the same month a year ago.

The official said overall export growth continued as demand for made-in-Bangladesh garment items are maintaining a rising trend in the global market.

He said readymade garment exports from Bangladesh grew by about 17 percent to 4.160 billion U.S. dollars in the first two months of the current 2013-14 fiscal year.

Bangladesh set its export target in 2013-14 fiscal year at 30. 50 billion U.S. dollars including 24.147 billion U.S. dollars from readymade garment products.

Bangladesh's export income in the past 2012-13 (July 2012-June 2013) fiscal year grew 11.18 percent year on year to reach 27.018 billion U. S. dollars, falling short of the projected target by 3. 51 percent. Endi

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