95% of Iran’s saffron products are exported in bulk
Amir Massoud Pejmanpour, President of Khorasan Razavi Rural Cooperative Union,
Akbar Mirzapour, Director of Physical Market Development of Iran Commodity Exchange,
Gholamreza Karimi, Saffron Producer and Hossein Zeinali
In this ceremony, the executor of the Medicinal Plants Project of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture said:
We are not looking for the slight development of saffron, but the quality of saffron is more important than its quantity.
Of course, medicinal plants such as saffron are expanding. .
Hossein Zeinali stated:
The turnover of saffron in the country is $ 400 million, of which $ 350 million is abroad and $ 50 million at home,
while the turnover in the world is equal to $ 8 million, given that Iran It is the largest producer of saffron in the world.
European countries do not recognize us as the main producer and most of Spain is considered.
Unfortunately, we have done poorly in the production of saffron products, Zinli said.
It is the duty of the government to grow the private sector without any consideration,
He emphasized the importance of saffron products in the country’s economy and continued:
it is necessary to create an organization in the country to inject new knowledge about saffron production.
Following this specialized roundtable, the director of horticulture of Khorasan Razavi Agricultural Jihad Organization said:
Khorasan Razavi harvests about 300 to 310 tons of saffron with 86,000 hectares of land and due to water shortage,
some other farmers turn to saffron production and cultivation.
Seyyed Hashemi Naqibi added:
while saffron products provide sufficient for domestic and foreign consumption and the average of Khorasan Razavi
farms per thousand meters of three Gives up to three kilograms and 500 kilograms of saffron.
He pointed out that not every soil is suitable for growing saffron flowers, and reminded:
We are trying to enable farmers to improve their products both in terms of quality and quantity.
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