There is not enough planning behind developing agriculture in order to create secondary industries to provide things such as, for example, tannery products.
Naturally, it will be most difficult for them to get employment once the tannery has closed.
I saw the decline of the railway foundries, the disappearance of many of our large tanneries, and changes in our chemical works.
In this case, it might enable the tannery industry to function on a better basis.
We should have tanneries and many other subsidiary industries.
I believe that our abattoirs are at the moment working under capacity and tanneries are facing a redundancy situation.
I should also mention the question of the leather tanneries, which are manned by people in the age range of 40 to 55 years.
Proposals for the establishment of a dry-cleaning business, market gardening, tannery and skin processing and the development of tourism are under consideration.
