Zambia’s Small Enterprise Development Board (SEDB) is reported to have allocated K300 million ($82,000) to a hides improvement project, aimed at enhancing the quality of country’s leather products.

Speaking at a press briefing announcing the project, SEDB executive director Chanda Mongo said 90 per cent of shoes and other leather products on the Zambian market were imported and yet most of these were made by small scale entrepreneurs.

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