Rawhide traders are expecting a good season for business this year as tanners have cleared last year's arrears owed to them, which would in turn enable purchasing skins and hides from seasonal traders during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
The government yesterday hiked the price of cured cowhides in Dhaka by 8 per cent to Tk 47-52 per square foot (sqft) ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, when millions of cattle are sacrificed by the country’s Muslim community as a part of their religious duties.
Exports from Bangladesh hit an all-time high of $52.08 billion in the just-concluded fiscal year, giving much-needed breathing space to the country amid ongoing volatility in the foreign exchange regime, official figures showed yesterday.
Bangladesh keeps losing out on tapping its vastly unutilised cattle rawhides as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate is not fully ready yet.
It is noon and the sun is beating down. Bidhu Halder, a 55-year-old fisherman, and his 24-year-old son Aradhon Halder are busy cutting steel rods for sanitary wares at Paragram village on the bank of the River Kaliganga. "I used to catch fish in the river for my livelihood, but the water has now become so polluted that there are no fish there. I had to resort to day labour for