Cowhide Price

Cowhide Price

Traders collect raw hide in the capital’s Dhanmondi, 28 May 2026. Photo: Rajib Dhar

How Bangladesh squanders its leather potential – hide by hide, Eid by Eid

Failure to secure environmental compliance and manipulation continue to depress prices.

From early morning, seasonal traders and small merchants from all 10 districts of Khulna division, as well as Gopalganj and Rajbari, arrived at Rajarhat with truckloads of hides. Photo: TBS

Traders count losses as cowhides sell at less than half govt-fixed rate in Jashore's Rajarhat

Traders loading rawhide into a pickup truck in the capital’s Mirpur Road on the day of Eid-ul-Adha (17 June). Photo: Rajib Dhar

Eid-ul-Adha: Cowhide price fixed at Tk62-67 per sq ft in Dhaka, Tk57-62 outside