The Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA) has urged the country’s government to implement a 15% subsidy on leather exports and allocate special funds to help 79 tanneries that have been identified as being in financial trouble. The association has also asked the government to speed up the relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh near Dhaka to Savar and to increase the area of the proposed new Leather City from 200 acres to 400 acres. The BTA has also proposed a system for offering small loans to farmers to encourage livestock breeding aimed at increasing the volume of hides and skins available to Bangladeshi tanneries.

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