Pakistan: tanners want exemption from daily power cuts
15/11/2012
Tanners across Pakistan have a high number of skins in storage at the moment following the festival of Eid-al-Adha, which this year took place at the end of October. According to industry estimates, more than 5.7 million animals, mostly sheep and goats, were slaughtered across Pakistan for the festival this year.
Across only a few days, the festival generates an estimated 30% of the total raw material Pakistani tanners use in a year.
Mr Muneer has called on the government to exempt tanners from planned energy cuts because a lack of access to power will make it impossible for leather producers to process skins before putrefaction sets in.
He said the loss of valuable material owing to unprofessional butchers carrying out slaughter and a lack of adequate storage facilities was already high.
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