{"id":47604,"date":"2024-06-01T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/ruto-were-on-course-to-deliver-100000-leather-sector-jobs\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T13:02:59","slug":"ruto-were-on-course-to-deliver-100000-leather-sector-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-were-on-course-to-deliver-100000-leather-sector-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto: We\u2019re on course to deliver 100,000 leather sector jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 1 \u2014 President William Ruto has reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to creating 100,000 jobs in the leather sector by 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading the country in commemorating the 61st Madaraka Day celebrations in Bungoma on Saturday, Ruto outlined the government\u2019s strategy to increase annual income from the sector from Sh15 billion to Sh120 billion and boost job creation.<\/p>\n

Ruto announced that his administration aims to raise annual footwear production from 8 million pairs to 36 million pairs, worth Sh72 billion, within the next three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is essential to our strategy that we transform the leather value chain from one driven by exports of raw material and semi-processed products to a sophisticated industry manufacturing internationally competitive finished leather and leather products, thus mopping up to 3 million hides and 18 million skins produced each year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To actualize the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), Ruto emphasized the government\u2019s focus on commercializing and reforming the livestock sector to improve performance.<\/p>\n

The President also highlighted the government\u2019s investment in developing the leather sub-sector to support competitive export industries, benefiting both enterprises and households.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are developing local capacity to handle hides and skins to provide quality raw material, tanning, as well as local manufacturing of finished leather goods such as shoes, bags, and belts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Leather processor<\/h2>\n

Ruto announced a Sh400 million allocation to upgrade the Ewaso Ng\u2019iro South Development Authority\u2019s leather factory.<\/p>\n

Of this, Sh200 million support the acquisition of modern equipment, Sh100 million to build a footwear factory, and Sh100 million to purchase hides and skins.<\/p>\n

He said the government had already procured and installed machinery to increase processing capacity at the factory.<\/p>\n

Ruto announced the training of 703 flayers with subsidized flaying equipment provided to 680 slaughter points to ensure the supply of quality hides and skins.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Ruto revealed that the construction of the Kenya Leather Industrial Park at Kenanie, Machakos County, is 85 per cent complete.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis park will have a common effluent treatment plant, two tanneries, two leather manufacturing plants, and 100 acres for investors to set up leather factories by the end of the year,\u201d Ruto said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 1 \u2014 President William Ruto has reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to creating 100,000 jobs in the leather sector by 2027. Leading the country in commemorating the 61st Madaraka Day celebrations in Bungoma on Saturday, Ruto outlined the government\u2019s strategy to increase annual income from the sector from Sh15 billion to Sh120 billion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}