{"id":44920,"date":"2026-03-28T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44920"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:49:14","slug":"nepal-exports-30-million-pairs-of-footwear-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-exports-30-million-pairs-of-footwear-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal exports 30 million pairs of footwear abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 28: With an annual export of 30 million pairs of footwear every year, Nepal has become self-reliant in footwear production, according to the Footwear Manufacturer&#8217;s Association of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a press statement today, Association&#8217;s General Secretary Nirmal Bhattarai said that the Nepali footwear industries carry the capacity to produce 160 million pairs in a year and 70 per cent of the domestic consumption is covered by Nepali footwear products.<\/p>\n<p>The Association stated that it has a crucial role in the nation&#8217;s economic development, employment generation and exports, adding that this sector has contributed to the country&#8217;s economy by earning foreign exchange through footwear export.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattarai has mentioned that development, protection and promotion of the Nepali footwear industries is the major concern of the present time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Association stated that its Chairman Suraj Banjade was proposed as a candidate for the working committee member in the upcoming election of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 28: With an annual export of 30 million pairs of footwear every year, Nepal has become self-reliant in footwear production, according to the Footwear Manufacturer&#8217;s Association of Nepal. Issuing a press statement today, Association&#8217;s General Secretary Nirmal Bhattarai said that the Nepali footwear industries carry the capacity to produce 160 million pairs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44922,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions\/44922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}