{"id":73342,"date":"2019-01-18T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T08:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73342"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T08:19:38","slug":"leather-studio-pleads-for-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/18\/leather-studio-pleads-for-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather studio pleads for markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Florence Magowa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73346\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/francis-kasaila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/francis-kasaila-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/francis-kasaila-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/francis-kasaila-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/francis-kasaila.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOURED FACILITY\u2014Kasaila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Leather Design Studio has asked Capital Hill to encourage government departments and agencies to buy its products.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the facility made the call in Blantyre on Monday during a tour by Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister, Francis Kasaila.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, which has the capacity to produce 300 pairs of shoes, falls under the Malawi Enterprise productivity Enhancement Project (Mepe).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the studio told Kasaila that they fear the facility would not sustain itself once the Mepe project ends in March due to the absence of guaranteed markets.<\/p>\n<p>Mepe Manager, Lemani Jusa, asked Kasaila to lobby for tenders in institutions such as Malawi Police Service, Malawi Defence Force, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi and water boards.<\/p>\n<p>Jusa said the studio wants to take advantage of the Buy Malawi Strategy to boost local production.<\/p>\n<p>Kasaila said the government is committed to ensuring that the studio succeeds.<\/p>\n<p>He said Capital Hill would help in establishing a market for locally made footwear.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in October 2018, the studio has not made significant progress in terms of production and marketing of its products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Florence Magowa: The Leather Design Studio has asked Capital Hill to encourage government departments and agencies to buy its products. Members of the facility made the call in Blantyre on Monday during a tour by Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister, Francis Kasaila. The facility, which has the capacity to produce 300 pairs of shoes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73347,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73342\/revisions\/73347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}