INDIAN LEATHER
February 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKATHE INDIAN government is planning to kick-start its shoe component leather industry, as part of a plan to boost the country's share of the global leather trade to 10 per cent from its current level of around seven per cent.A working group on the development of the leather sector under the 2002-2007 Tenth Five-Year Plan has concluded that this target "is not ambitious," but would be "realisable only when India is able to source a larger share of global trade on footwear."Although the country performs well in the trade for leather ...
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