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Agra’s footwear industries: A heritage that contributes to India’s economy & The hub of footwear manufacture in India since Mughal era.
India's the second largest global producer of footwear after china with annual production of 2065 million pairs.
The Footwear sector is a very significant segment of the leather industry in india - rather it is Engine of growth for the entire leather industry. Its export in footwear segment is close to US$ 2500 million. The historic city of Agra is the biggest footwear cluster of India. Agra is known for footwear manufacturing since the 15th century. Agra has about 250 mechanized/semi mechanized units &5000 cottage industries accounting for manufacturing capacity of 3,00,000 to 5,00,000 pairs per day. It provides about 4,00,000 job sin the cluster. Today Agra meets 65% of domestic requirement &has 28% share in the total footwear exports from the country.
The patina on this shoe is very well done. Seeing the shoe in person, you really get to see how beautiful the yellow color mixed with the blacks are. I wore the monks a few times and noticed they did crease a little more than to my liking just after the first wear (about a 1 hour and 30 minute walk). So knocking a star off for that, however, very nice pair.
Joan Doe,
store owner
Shoe making started (in Agra) in the Mughal era with leather mushaks which were used to carry hing, converting it into shoes,” it was from the 1960s and 1980s that the city’s footwear industries flourished the most, thanks primarily to footwear exports to the erstwhile Soviet Union. According to conservative estimates, 13 per cent of all shoe trade in Agra in 1963 was with Russia and its satellite countries. Shoe exports to the Soviet Union in the early 1980s was worth ₹1,200 crores from the 150 odd shoe exporters in Agra.