Addis Ababa December 28/2023 (ENA) Guaranteeing properly organized advertising and marketing system and establishing correct community amongst stakeholders in hides and skins worth chain are instrumental in enhancing contribution to the nation’s financial system, based on a senior researcher on the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Analysis (EIAR).
Presenting a paper titled Hides and Skins (HSs) Manufacturing and Market: Standing, Challenges and Prospects in Ethiopia at a workshop organized by the agricultural analysis institute at the moment, EIAR Senior Researcher Rehima Musema stated Ethiopia has ample livestock assets and distinctive options of hides and skins.
Nonetheless, there are excellent challenges that have to be solved urgently.
Pre-slaughter and peri-slaughter defects, post-slaughter flaws, scarcity of chemical, restricted assist for the sector, insufficient community of stakeholders in hides and skins worth chain, amongst others, have been raised as challenges to the sector.
Additionally, lack of correct platform to combine all pertinent stakeholders in hides and skins worth chain ranging from farmers and pastoralists to the market system has been a crucial problem within the sector.
The senior researcher additional famous that fixing high quality issues, making certain properly organized advertising and marketing system and institutional assist are essential to reinforce the inclusive contribution of hides and skins to the nation’s financial system.
Furthermore, Rehima pressured the necessity for revising the hides and skins and leather-based and leather-based merchandise insurance policies.
The senior researcher lastly urged all stakeholders to contribute their respective accountability to correctly exploit the nation’s ample assets within the sector and improve its share within the financial system.
Ethiopia has ample livestock assets and is ranked first in Africa and fifth globally when it comes to livestock inhabitants.