Lakhdar Laraba: The time has come to resurrect the textile and leather industries from their ashes – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazairia

The representative of the Ministry of Industry, Lakhdar Laraba, presented his vision of the future of the leather industry in Algeria, and the mechanisms adopted by their ministerial department to promote this model of industries, as the same official explained that the leather branch and the leather industry are known in the current period as a kind of reconsideration. They have been neglected by the Ministry of Industry for a long time, and the representative of the Ministry of Industry, Lakhdar Laraba, said in the same context, “We are all responsible for the setback that occurred in this sector, starting from the producers, industrialists, sector officials, and even the consumer himself has a hand in this equation when he announced his reluctance to consume The national product and its run behind materials imported from abroad.

Industry will contribute more than 10 percent to the gross domestic product
Speaking about the mechanisms adopted by the Ministry of Industry to give impetus to these two sectors, textile and leather, its representative at the “Dialogue” forum, Lakhdar Laraba, confirmed that based on the instructions of the President of the Republic during the industrial revival symposium that was organized from 4 to 6 December 2021, as this meeting resulted Instructing the president to give consideration to the various industrial branches, which necessitates the ministry to grant full support to these industries, which allows an increase in the percentage of the industry’s contribution to the gross domestic product, which ranges at the present time between 6 and 8 percent, indicating that their ministerial sector emerges during the years Coming to raising this rate to about 10 or 15 percent, and the first step, as he said, and in order to raise the challenge, four multi-sectoral national committees were established, which are strategic bodies, where four industrial branches were selected in order to resurrect the industry, which are food, mechanical, electrical, and electronic industries. And the textile and leather industries, stressing that the aim of this goal is to make these four branches contribute to the gross domestic product.

Multisectoral National Committee for the Rehabilitation of Leather
Our topic today is related to the textile and leather sector, says the representative of the Ministry of Industry, Lakhdar Laraba, in the same context, as they are considered among the sensitive sectors that flourished and flourished during the launch period in the seventies and eighties of the last century. They met national needs, but only after Algeria opened up to the market. And random imports, and the security conditions experienced by Algeria, all of these reasons led to its setback, wilting, decline, and the loss of the competitive national product. Consequently, the leading national institutions in this field retreated and lost their leading role in supplying the national market after their profitability and quality decreased, and the number of qualified workers decreased and the efficiency that was The General Complex for the Textile and Leather Industry was distinguished, and due to the aggravation of the problems that this sector suffers from, a National Committee for Textile and Leather was established on June 23, 2022, which consists of the various ministries concerned such as the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and the Ministry of National Defense, which is concerned with military industries, as well as the Ministry of Training. Occupational, in addition to the Ministry of Finance and Customs, the environmental sector that handles tannery waste, as well as essential The Ministry of Employment and Social Security, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture, intervened as the main source of raw materials, indicating that this committee began its sensitization work in the first place because this industrial branch was invaded by unauthorized industrialists, unknown and not registered in the commercial register, not even in the database in “ To Knas” or “Kaznos”, and accordingly, a conversation was made with the institutions to enter the legal circle and to a regular market. Our goal is to absorb the parallel market, stressing that the aim of this process is to restore the confidence of private dealers, especially since these institutions, as he said, are characterized by their small size and number Its workers do not exceed 10 employees, and they are family enterprises and they are spread across the national country, and the start was according to him from the state of the capital by organizing two meetings, including to the state of Medea in December 2022, after which the state of Tlemcen was visited and all the meetings that were organized in those states were summoned Economic dealers in textile and leather, the aim of which is to diagnose these two sectors, given their ability to absorb unemployment rampant in society, and thus adds the same official who can employ the largest possible number of young people and Women staying at home, stressing that the directors of industry directorates across the country had the freedom to intervene in the meeting held within the framework of enriching the textile and leather sector.

Getaxt is the permanent companion and supporter of the revival of the leather industry
The representative of the Ministry of Industry, Lakhdar Laraba, expressed his thanks to the public assembly “Getaxt”, which proved its worth and its supportive accompaniment by recruiting all its means across the states in which regional meetings were organized with industrialists in the textile and leather sector, explaining that during the local meetings, all problems, obstacles and difficulties were identified. Which professionals in these two models of industry suffer from, and after the state sessions, national sessions were organized for the textile and leather manufacturing industry, the latest of which was the national session that was organized on January 30 and 31, 2023, in which various ministerial departments contributed with the participation of private and public dealers.
Where the meeting resulted in very important recommendations, all of which are aimed at reviving these industries again and achieving national self-sufficiency.