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Kenyan government to build three new tanneries by August

09/05/2011
The government of Kenya has announced that it will spend $300,000 building three new community-managed small-sized tanneries in the towns of Wajir and Garissa in the north-west of the country and Bungoma in the west. It expects the tanneries to be ready by August.

The project is part of a wider economic stimulus programme and will increase the number of tanneries in the country to 16.

“We will end up with 16 tanneries, which should help us process all hides and skins and increase value addition,” said Mwinyikione Mwinyihija, the chief executive of Kenya’s Leather Development Council. “With a demand of 34 million pairs of shoes annually, we can help the country industrialise.”



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