Rift Valley pastoralists to recover their leather industry
11/01/2013
District livestock development officer, Peter Mutiso, told Kenyan media that this area, in the south of the country, had a thriving informal leather processing industry between 1972 and 2001, when most tanneries collapsed in the face of competition from cheap imports of leather products.
Since then, locals say, pastoralists have had to trade with middlemen who buy raw hides from them at unfair rates.
“We will do well,” said Mr Mutiso, “because there is a high demand for leather and it will also be used locally.”
KLDC projects that an average of 40 hides and 50 skins will be handled at the facility per day.
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