Hide and Skin Quality Factors and Marketing Systems in Ethiopia: A Review

Abstract

Ethiopia have huge number of livestock population first leading in Africa. In Ethiopian hide and skin quality very series due to major reasons being lack of modem slaughtering facilities, lack of knowledge and understanding of the correct methods of flaying and curing of the perishable hides and skins, quality deterioration, lack of incentive to supply good quality raw material to suppliers, and inadequate numbers of slaughterhouses and slabs , mechanical defects, poor nutrition, age of livestock, breed, climate, inadequate network of primary buyers, lack of facilities for slaughtering, preservation, storage, and transportation, “lack of incentives for improvement”, and limited effectiveness of government extension service, as well as other man-made and natural damage inflicted on the raw hides and skins, lack of marketing area ,low price , inadequate in preservation techniques and diseases are some factors of hide and skin quality in Ethiopia. And also most people do not preserve hide and skin before selling, this make putrefaction and this has a significant negative effect on the quality of the hides and skin. An in-depth study of the hide and skin quality management and marketing was necessary in order to gain an insight into marketing chain, the key factors involved and constraints attached to various stages of actors. Since the above factors have been an effect on quality of hide and skin, there is a need to assess quality management and marketing of hide and skin to fill the existing problem in in Ethiopia.

Key words: Livestock, Africa, Slaughtering, Deterioration, Quality, Preservation

DOI: 10.7176/DCS/11-2-01

Publication date: February 28^th 2021