The prices people get for cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha are “not reasonable” and the latest government decision aims to ensure that they get the fair price, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi says.

Tanners and leather exporters opposed the commerce ministry's plan to allow rawhide exports, on the grounds that it might cause a scarcity for the local industry. “We have set up expensive machineries ...

With two days to Eid, local traders fear rotting or smuggling of unsold rawhide of sacrificial animals as tanners have not paid the arrears with which they could buy the hides. The tanners owe rawhide ...

The situation has indeed improved from the grim picture of the past two years. In recent years, there has been a marked decline in the rawhide collection as stocks from previous years drove down ...

More than an hour's drive from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, on a winding road through mountains and high plateaus, sits a modern leather-processing factory owned by Chinese investors. China-Africa ...

The industry talks more and more about what happens to farm produce when it leaves the gate, but what about the meat industry’s by-products? “If you start with a bad hide, you finish with a bad hide.