2024-07-08 06:38:06
Rawhide traders and tannery owners want storage or cold storage facilities at the peripheral level including Natore, Chittagong, Dhaka to properly store, maintain and prevent the skin of sacrificial animals. They said that it is possible to eliminate the leather storage crisis in a very short time by modernizing unused storage in different regions. This will save the hides of a large number of sacrificial animals from spoilage every year.
These words came up in the meeting of the Standing Committee on Hide and Skin, Leather, Leather Goods and Artificial Leather organized at the Motijheel office of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) on Saturday (July 6).
Senior Vice President of FBCCI. Amin Helali said that the government should strengthen the storage system in every district to save raw leather. If necessary, the private sector can be involved in this initiative. Besides, hundred percent compliance of leather industry should be implemented. Compliance must be ensured not only for the export market, but also for the production of products for ourselves. The competitiveness of the leather industry should be increased.
In order to implement the compliance, the leather industry city has been shifted from Hazaribagh in the capital to Savar. A long time has passed but the CETP or Central Effluent Treatment Plant there is still not fully functional. Weaknesses also exist in solid waste management. Which is a big obstacle in getting international environmental clearance (Leather Working Group Compliance Certificate). Director in-charge of the standing committee. Saiful Islam said, this is one of the obstacles in the growth of export of leather and leather products.
Shaheen Ahmed, chairman of the committee and former director of FBCCI, emphasized on providing loans on easy terms to small and medium traders of the leather industry on the occasion of Eid al-Adha. He said that the government should come forward to remove existing non-tariff barriers in the case of leather exports to neighboring countries including China to increase exports.
Participating in the open discussion of the meeting, the speakers said, easy financing system for leather and leather industry entrepreneurs, creation of skilled and trained workforce including designers, ensuring adequate training and use of technology, establishment of footwear industrial village, establishment of modern slaughterhouse, development of conventional knives and machinery in the country and Training of butchers, establishment of common display centers for leather and leather products, provision of short diploma courses and higher education in leather technology, payment of dues to hide and skin traders, taking effective initiatives to obtain environmental clearance for Savar Leather Industry City, National Leather Industry Management Act Representation of all stakeholders in the sector should be ensured in the committee.
FBCCI Director Hafez Haji Harun-or-Rashid, Azizul Haque, Secretary General were also present at this time. Alamgir and others.