Khorasan Razavi producing more than 80 percent of Iranian saffron
Director of market regulation and business development products Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi said now more than 80% of the area under cultivation and production of saffron from Khorasan.
According to the group of the Young Journalists Club of Mashhad, Seyed Hamid Javadi said this year about 70 thousand hectares of land in Khorasan Razavi Saffron cultivation has increased compared to last year, 69 thousand hectares.
He said that last year a total of 218 tons of saffron crop to be harvested is forecast to rise by 240 tons compared to last year.
Javadi of the multiple problems in the field of saffron in the interest of speculators and low interest rates planting and harvest for farmers and producers said and added that in addition to the presence of speculators in the export of saffron in this area is deep concern.
He stressed that the brokers and intermediaries should be shortened saffron export market, he said, given that most of the production and export of saffron from Khorasan is done, increase product quality for export in this sector is of great importance is.
The official pointed to the lack of private sector in the field of saffron trustee said that this year one of the programs of agriculture and management market regulation saffron exports.
Javadi said in this regard, has developed a program in which farmers and manufacturers from exporting their share.
Director of market regulation and business development of agricultural products Khorasan Razavi said that now the price of saffron at a reasonable and balanced, while the number of producers out there that saffron brokers and intermediaries in the world.
He said this process would have been no benefit producers and dealers of all profits go into the pockets.
Javadi said: Now the price per kilogram of saffron Teenagers over 63 million rials.
Saffron production in Khorasan Razavi average four kilograms per hectare.
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