Nicaragua: schools programme worth $5 million to leather and shoe sector
06/10/2016
Around 2,000 small manufacturers in different parts of Nicaragua expect to receive commissions to make some of the shoes. Estimates are that 625,000 pairs of shoes with leather uppers will be required before the start of the new school year.
One manufacturer, Mario José Ramírez of Calzado Young in Granada, told local media that his is one of the companies that has the tools, the knowledge and the skilled personnel to make some of the shoes required. He employs a total of nine artisans and has the capacity to produce 700 pairs of high-quality shoes per week, he said.
A tanner, Adolfo Alfaro, from Tenería La Fuente, said the last three months of the year have become the busiest for his company because demand for a share of the 400,000 square-feet of finished leather it produces increases among shoe producers taking part in the government school programme.
Mr Alfaro said the programme is worth around $5 million per year to the leather and footwear sector in the Central American country.
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