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"Hundreds of years ago the primary reason to rear cattle was for their valuable skin - the meat was mostly just a by-product," he continued, from behind a stack of brown leather hides.
Modern day Argentina is altogether different, where cattle are reared for their meat and leather is the by-product. Argentina prides itself on its farming prowess and rightly so. There are few places in the world that rear their cattle so extensively and professionally to provide the leather industry with such an exemplary raw material.
There are currently 60 million cattle roaming Argentina's vast pampa grasslands and just over 12 million cattle are slaughtered every year to satisfy the growing appetite of both the internal and international markets. In 2006, Argentina exported over US$60 million worth of tanned hides to Italy, which were then manufactured into top quality, high value goods to be sold on world markets.
Experts agree that Argentina could well be rivaling the likes of Italy for the top name in leather ten years from now.
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