{"id":61269,"date":"2026-05-28T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=61269"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:44:58","slug":"algerias-eid-hides-campaign-enters-7th-year-boosting-national-leather-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=61269","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Eid Hides Campaign Enters 7th Year, Boosting National Leather Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s national campaign to collect Eid al-Adha animal hides has entered its seventh consecutive year, with officials telling <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> that the initiative is playing a transformative role in strengthening the country&#8217;s leather industry.<\/p>\n<p>Miqdad Akoun, official at the Ministry of Industry&#8217;s studies and planning department, told <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> exclusively that the rate of usable hides collected has surged from just 16% in 2018 to 36% in 2025, with targets set to reach between 45% and 50% before year&#8217;s end \u2014 allowing half of all recovered hides to feed directly into national manufacturing chains.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is coordinated across multiple government ministries including Interior, Religious Affairs, Environment, Health, and Agriculture, alongside civil society organizations and Algeria&#8217;s Islamic Scouts movement.<\/p>\n<p>Akoun emphasized that the strategy championed by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is firmly anchored in achieving industrial sovereignty and reinforcing domestic production \u2014 a cornerstone of Algeria&#8217;s broader economic independence vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s national campaign to collect Eid al-Adha animal hides has entered its seventh consecutive year, with officials telling dzwatch that the initiative is playing a transformative role in strengthening the country&#8217;s leather industry. Miqdad Akoun, official at the Ministry of Industry&#8217;s studies and planning department, told dzwatch exclusively that the rate of usable hides collected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}