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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Four leather factories in Jinja City have closed, leaving hundreds of former workers unemployed.<\/b><\/p>\n

The factories are; SWT Leather Industries located on Mutibwa Road, Mehaka Leather Exim Smc Limited, Uganda Leather and Tannery Industries, Jinja, and Loyal Small Scale Industries located on Nile Crescent Road.<\/p>\n

The head of membership and administration at Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jinja Branch, Mr Moses Mulondo, attributed the closure of the factories to a lack of enough raw materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese factories were producing below capacity because the supply of hides and skin was lower than the demand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Mulondo said the collapse of the industries has affected the economy of Jinja.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese factories used to employ many people, especially casual labourers. The closure has created unemployment in Jinja City, he said.<\/p>\n

The Jinja City Deputy Speaker, Ms Sirina Kyakuwaire, said the collapse of the industries has affected revenue collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to collect taxes in those industries and their closure has affected our revenue collection yet residents are expecting good roads, street lights, and a clean city without garbage, among others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mr Arafa Wambede, a dealer in hides and skins in Jinja City, said they have only one leather factory remaining; Skyfat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the proprietors of Skyfat Tannery stop buying our hides and skin, we shall have nowhere to sell them because the other industries have closed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Wambede said low export volumes have also caused the drop in prices for the last five years, from Shs3,000 per kg to as low as Shs500.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prices dropped from Shs3,000 to Shs1,400 per kilogramme in 2022 and are currently low at Shs500. There has been a monthly price deduction of Shs100,\u201d he said. Mr Wambede said they used to export wet-blue leather, that is, unfinished hides that have been dehaired and tanned with chromium salts and sulphate. However, he said the market is no longer available.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese from Skyfat currently use hides and skin for making food, which they export to China because the export market for wet-blue leather is no longer available,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The General Secretary of Jinja City Abattoir, Mr Ronald Mutabi Byarugaba, said the price fluctuation has affected the business. \u201cThe prices have dropped from Shs3,500 for the skin of a cow to between Shs400 and Shs500 and the prices of goat hides have fallen from Shs10,000 to Shs1,500 and Shs2,000, which has affected our businesses,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Byarugaba said the demand for the hides and skins abroad is high but they lack the export licences.<\/p>\n

The chairperson of Jinja City Abattoir, Mr Chrizestom Kagolo, attributed the drop in the prices to the government ban on the exportation of raw hide and skin.<\/p>\n

Export ban<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hides and skin were being exported when they were still fresh but when the government allowed only the exportation of wet-blue leather, traders lost the market,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Kagolo said some traders had a market in Nigeria where hide and skin are used as food but they also lost it. Mr George Katongole, the chairperson of Kamuli Municipality Cattle Traders Association, said a kilograme of hides and skins costs between Shs200 and Shs300 per kilogramme in the area.<\/p>\n

Mr Katongole said the hides and skins are currently rotting in their stores because their prices are determined by forces of demand and supply.<\/p>\n

Mr Samson Ojune, the chairperson of Katakwi Cattle Traders Association, attributed the drop in the prices of hides and skins to high taxation by the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the government intervened in hide and skin businesses and started taxing it, we lost the export market and if a country has signed a memorandum of understanding with other countries and you breach it, you lose the market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Source: Monitor<\/b><\/p>\n

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