Tanzania aims to revive leather industry
21/02/2017
It follows a meeting between Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"We are looking to revive the defunct leather industries and establish new ones to process and utilise the millions of skins produced in Tanzania every year," Mr Mwijage said.
He added that Tanzania’s leather industry had been undermined due to low value addition and a large number of skins and hides being wasted due to poor handling.
Tanzania currently has eight small and medium-sized leather factories operating below capacity, both for the collection and processing of raw hides and skins, according to Mr Mwijage.
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