Rawhide traders and tannery owners in Bangladesh sought storage facilities at the regional level, including in Natore, Chattogram and Dhaka to properly store and maintain the quality of sacrificial animals’ skin, on Sunday.
They raised the demand at a meeting of standing committee of Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry held at its office in Motijheel, Dhaka.
The traders said it was possible to quickly eliminate the leather storage crisis by modernising unused storage in different areas.
Thus a large quantity of sacrificial animal hides could be preserved, they said.
The Standing Committee on Hide and Skin, Leather, Leather Goods and Artificial Leather organised the meeting, which was presided over by the committee's chairperson and former director of the federation Shaheen Ahmed.
Md Saiful Islam, one of the directors of the federation and former president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and director-in-charge of the committee, was present at the programme where the federation’s senior vice president Md Amin Helaly was present as chief guest.
Besides, different directors of the federation and leather sector traders were present at the event.
