Rural producers to make more of llama leather
02/08/2013
Organisers said that, for the first time, rural manufacturers from the area had brought finished leather products to show at the fair. One of the producers, Gerónimo Veliz, told local media that development agencies had provided machinery to allow him and his colleagues to make more of the raw material.
He explained that llama hides had, in the recent past, brought in a price of around $20 for his community, but that local people had become aware of the substantial profits buyers of the hides were making from making finished goods with the leather.
“Working in groups, we have begun to make our own wallets, belts, caps, handbags, briefcases and leather jackets,” he said. “One jacket will sell for more than $50.”
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