Buy Guaranteed Saffron from Torbat Heydarieh
Saeed Bastani said in an interview with our correspondent that according to the agreement reached with the Ministry of Jihad, the cooperative organization has been ordered to buy saffron from farmers at the saffron producing country. The Saman Bank has paid a fee in The authority of the Rural Cooperative Organization is to buy saffron at an appropriate price from the farmers.
Representative of the people of Torbat Heydarieh, Mahvolat and Zahwah in the Islamic Consultative Assembly did not guarantee the purchase price of saffron. He added: “The Cooperative Organization has now agreed on the issue of saffron purchasing and no comment on its price.
Earlier, 14 representatives of the provinces of Khorasan Razavi, South and North, by sending a letter to the Minister for Agriculture Jihad, as well as the vice president and head of the program and budget organization, required the entry of the cooperative organization in this field.
The letter stated: “Due to the beginning of the season of picking saffron and the arrival of dealers in the field of pricing and reducing prices in a way that is not affordable to the farmer, the Rural Cooperative Organization needs to enter this field.
Torbat Heydarieh, having 8,000 hectares of saffron, has the largest cultivar of this product in the country and is therefore known as the Iranian saffron capital.
This year, 33 tons of saffron were harvested from the level of the fields, which increased compared with last year.
Torbat Heydarieh has 12% of cultivated saffron in Khorasan Razavi, and the product is exported to 45 countries.
Now 15,000 households are engaged in saffron in the city of Torbat Heydarieh, and this product has directly generated employment for 70,000 people.
The 250 thousandth city of Torbat Heydarieh is located 150 kilometers southwest of Mashhad.
More than 90 percent of the world’s saffron produces more than 80 percent of Iran’s saffron, Khorasan Razavi.
source: iribnews.ir
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