Kazakhstan's National Statistics Agency reports that Kazakhstan's leather industry recorded an output value worth US$7.25 million in the first half of this year, according to the Interfax news agency. The figure represented a year-on-year decrease of 19.7%, and mainly resulted from a fall in the production of leather from cattle hides, pig skin and sheepskin. Kazakhstan's records show that there were 6.40 million head of cattle on farms in Kazakhstan as of July 1, an increase of 5.9% compared with the number on the same date in 2004, according to the Interfax news agency.
