A study on the export potentials of leather industry in tamilnadu

Abstract

The leather and leather products industry is one of India s oldest newlinemanufacturing industries. The industry employs about 3.9 million people with a newlinelarge number of them belonging to poor and marginalized sections of society. The newlineindustry covers a vast spectrum of inputs activities, skills and products i.e. newlinelivestock, hides and skills, tanning, leather products and exports. The main products newlinemade out of leather are footwear, leather garments, leather goods such as handbags, newlinebelts, wallets, gloves, sport goods, harness and saddlery, upholstery, etc. Of all newlinethese items, it is footwear that consumes about 60% of the total leather production. newlineTamilnadu has more leather cluster region like Chennai, Ambur, Vaniyambadi, newlinePernambut, Ranipet, Erode, Dindugul and Trichy. Theses cluster exports more newlineleather products among other states of India. So India earn more annual turnover newlinethrough leather industry because it has more region all over India and export more newlineLeather products to all country. No tannery operates without access to any effluent newlinetreatment plant and 100% connectivity to pollution control devices is a specialty of Tamil Nadu. Consequently the state of Tamil Nadu once popular for E.I tanned newlinehides and skins throughout the world particularly in countries like the U.S.A, U.K, newlineItaly, West Germany, France and Japan etc. So the above backdrops, the researcher newlineselect the leather industry as a present study. The present study is both descriptive newlineand analytical in Nature. The data were collected from secondary source. Secondary newlinedata were collected from the records published by (CLE) Council for Leather newlineExport, Chennai, and the data were gathered from various journals magazines, web newlineportal also. The collected data were processed with the help of appropriate newlinestatistical tools which were selected on the basis of objectives of the study the study newlineand the nature of data used for analysis, tests like Mean, Standard deviations, Co newlinevariance, Compound Growth Rate, Multiple Regression, ANOVA, Annual Growth newlinerate h