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Tanzania: poor raw material supply puts tanneries under threat

07/02/2012

In spite of having a livestock population of 21.3 million head of cattle, 15 million goats and 6.4 million sheep, Tanzania’s tanning sector faces a severe threat, according to local media, because of a lack of raw material supply. A newspaper, The Citizen, visited the country’s three biggest tanneries at the start of September. It said the three...

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