Indian tanners taken to task over slow export growth
10/09/2007
Tanners and manufacturers of leathergoods in India will have to speed up export growth by around 20% a year if the country is to hit the government's target of bringing in $7 billion a year from the industry by 2011.
The president of the All India Skin and Hide Tanners and Merchants Association (AISHTMA), M Rafeeque Ahmed, told the organisation's members at their annual general meeting that they had been too slow to take advantage of government funding to help them upgrade tanneries and too reluctant to embrace modern management methods.
The president of the All India Skin and Hide Tanners and Merchants Association (AISHTMA), M Rafeeque Ahmed, told the organisation's members at their annual general meeting that they had been too slow to take advantage of government funding to help them upgrade tanneries and too reluctant to embrace modern management methods.
He said: "I am somewhat disappointed with the efforts bestowed by you on these two areas. The opportunity provided by the tannery modernisation programme is yet to be availed in full. You have to embark on the project of modernising the industry in full steam, by utilising the funds earmarked in greater measure."
He told members that the organisation would help them fill in the necessary applications to snap up the funding.
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