The Federal Government said plans were under way to increase
the supply of leather to tanneries, with a view to developing the
nation’s leather industry. This was contained in a report made available
to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, on Tuesday.
The report was prepared by the leather commodity sub-committee, Agricultural Transformation Action Plan, office of the Minister of Agriculture, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The report said plans designed to be addressed by the action plan included reactivating and increasing leather supply to tanneries, through improved primary processing of hides and skins.
It said the plan would increase capacity of the tanneries through reactivation of the local tanneries that had gone down due to lack of funds.
The plan, it said, would also ensure that training and provision of modern machines, tools and equipment would be put in place, as well as establishment of an effective market strategy through promotion of local production.
According to the report, the plan would run for four years and also be formed as one of the components of the livestock sub-sector, in line with the Federal Government’s transformation agenda.
The report said the intervention would provide additional market share for Nigerian producers to further boost the nation’s economy.
It pointed out that in Kano, over 45 million skins of animals were processed annually by tanneries.
“Of these processed skins, about 30 per cent are imported into Nigeria from neighbouring West, East and North Africa.”
Credit: NAN
The report was prepared by the leather commodity sub-committee, Agricultural Transformation Action Plan, office of the Minister of Agriculture, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The report said plans designed to be addressed by the action plan included reactivating and increasing leather supply to tanneries, through improved primary processing of hides and skins.
It said the plan would increase capacity of the tanneries through reactivation of the local tanneries that had gone down due to lack of funds.
The plan, it said, would also ensure that training and provision of modern machines, tools and equipment would be put in place, as well as establishment of an effective market strategy through promotion of local production.
According to the report, the plan would run for four years and also be formed as one of the components of the livestock sub-sector, in line with the Federal Government’s transformation agenda.
The report said the intervention would provide additional market share for Nigerian producers to further boost the nation’s economy.
It pointed out that in Kano, over 45 million skins of animals were processed annually by tanneries.
“Of these processed skins, about 30 per cent are imported into Nigeria from neighbouring West, East and North Africa.”
Credit: NAN
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