Ngamiland farmers find P3.3m hides market in Zimbabwe

As part of the United Nations Development Programme, Ngamiland’s Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Programme community members recently toured Zimbabwe to benchmark on the country’s leather industry. They toured the Leather Institute of Zimbabwe, which coordinates the leather sector and the country’s tanneries to learn how Zimbabwe conducts its leather industry.

From the tour, an opportunity emerged for Ngamiland farmers who are hard hit by foot and mouth disease and have been without consistent market for their cattle for eight years -- since the 2007 Habu outbreak.