On a quarter-on-quarter seasonally and calendar adjusted basis, agriculture shrank 2.7 percent, manufacturing fell 0.5 percent and wholesale and retail trade contracted 0.1 percent. Financial and insurance activities decreased 3.2 percent.
The mining sector rose a meager 0.2 percent and construction remained flat. Meanwhile, real estate activities advanced at a
faster 0.5 percent and transportation and storage rose 1 percent.
Year-on-year, the GDP expanded 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2014, slowing from a revised 4.7 percent expansion in the previous quarter.