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Ethiopia: rural communities respond to better hide trading conditions

26/04/2012
Reports from Ethiopia suggest that farmers and pastoralists in rural communities are taking on board messages about the value of the hides and skins of their animals after slaughter, improving the environment for hide trading across the country and providing tanners with more and better-quality raw material.

In the past nine months livestock owners in the Gedeo Zone in the south of the country have supplied 152,000 hides and skins to the market through co-operatives and new transaction arrangements that the government has helped to put in place. A rise in the price of hides was another important incentive.

Official sources have said this represents an increase of more than 53% compared to the volume of hides and skins farmers in the Gedeo Zone were able to supply in the same nine-month period the year before.


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