Cluster Profile
| 1 | Name Of Cluster | Agra leather footwear |
| 2 | Place | Agra |
| 3 | District | Agra |
| 4 | State | Uttar pradesh |
| 5 | No of firms (by type) | 5000 |
| 6 | No. of workers | 100000 |
| 7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Rs.13200 million |
| 8 | Associations in cluster | Dayal Bag Leather Working School- Agra AADHAR Bharteeya Charm Udyog Sangh Agra Footwear Manufacturers Association Exporters Chamber (AFMEC) Boot Manufacturers Association, Agra |
| 9 | Major products | Shoes, Synthetic upper materials, MCR sheet, PVC unit soles, Infant s shoes |
| 10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) a constituent laboratory under the council of National Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi is the worlds largest R&D Institute in leather sector |
| 11 | Major markets | Local and National |
| 12 | Major problems/prospects | The raw materials are easily available in the market but during the peak season the rates of raw materials are high Big export workshops machinery and equipments are mostly imported from countries like Italy, Germany, UK, and Taiwan etc Manufactures cannot hold the stock hence they are bound to sell his product at much lower rate and the price of his product is decided by the person who issues a letter of credit (Purcha) Low level of education and inability to communicate in English has remained a major problem for entrepreneurs These units are managed by family members or a group of persons hence investments in the units are limited The men power of skilled workers is easily available but this work force is illiterate hence they depend on traditional know how and razed to new processes which can give better shape and looks to their products if they are given good training Due to manufactures from house the problem of sanitation is mainly faced by these people because the odor of the product is dissolved into the atmosphere of the house hold, which every time gives stinky smell The facility provided by State Trading Corporation (STC) Agra is on very limited scale hence the manufactures are compiled to rush to Delhi and Chennai to get its product tested as per the specifications of the buyers. This causes lot of inconvenience to the manufacturers in terms of money and time. |
| 13 | Data source and updated on | DSR By G.P Agarwal, CDE,Asst Dir,(L/F) In year 2009 |