Diversification of Export of Indian Raw-Hide and Skin
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Economics, Business and Management - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Abstract: Leather and leather product is a pioneer whether we talk about domestic or international market. It is an important non-farm activity employing, landless, small and marginal farmers in rural area and even urban youth. It employs not only 2.5 million workforce but also thirty per cent of the women workforce. Raw-hide and skin is the basic raw-material which is converted into finished leather by a process called tanning. It is a by-product of meat and milk production whose export helps in earning huge forex. Mainly shudra or chamars in the past used to get engaged in flaying of raw hide and skin but in contemporary India youth of all caste started getting engaged in this activity. The present paper had tried to analyze through the use of entropy and ogive index as to whether diversification or concentration of raw-hide and skin had increased or decreased during the period 1990-91 to 2013-14 for major fifty-five countries of the world. Keywords: Exports, globalization, diversification, concentration, rural non-farm employment.
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