State steps up efforts to revive leather sector with export plan

A trader at the Kariokor leather market in Nairobi. The government targets to create 120,000 jobs in the leather sub-sector value chain, up from the current 21,000. [File, Standard]

Livestock Development Principal Secretary Jonathan Mueke says the government is working on securing new international markets for locally produced hides and skins.

The PS was reacting to complaints from dealers that there were no markets outside Kenya and few local buyers.