Pakapun Skunmun
2013
This book covers a wide range of aspects of cattle and buffalo hide collection, storage and processing in Thailand. No previous collation of information on the subject exists and, together with research presented herein, this book represents a milestone in understanding of a neglected industry with great commercial potential from improved management. The story starts with the emergence of Thailand as one of the world’s major agricultural exporters in many fields often to the neglect of useful by-products. Treating hides as a by-product of the bovine industries has held Thailand’s own leather industry back. This book explains means by which it can be advanced to both national and commercial benefit. Because of the low quality of local hides in Thailand as in other developing countries, the end users in the industrial sector have long experienced major difficulties. As hide purchasers they need to meet quality requirements for their hide products in an efficient and financially viable manner. They operate without having the ways and means to deal with the existing problems of defects that originate from different sources in other segments of the industry. A clear demand to improve the local hide quality produced the basis for an integrated approach for traceability. Results and conclusions from detailed investigations led to specific recommendations for improvements in the industry that are presented in these pages. The approach used in examining the Thai hide industry was a hide cluster model that facilitated operational research and development, that aimed to introduce new and promising technologies for improved hide salting, to study some key physical indicators of desirable cattle hides, to identify the types and severity of damages that occur on hides and to trace these to the original sources of the problems and to develop a quality standard for Kamphaeng Saen (KPS) hides. With a common aim in improving hide quality of Kasetsart University (KU), the KU Beef Coop
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