Activation of Saffron Fund
Hussein Shirzad pointed out that the Saffron Fund, with the support and participation of saffron workers, unions and the governor of Khorasan Razavi, added that 49 percent of the shares of the state budget fund and 51 percent of the private sector capital. In the study plan, 5 trillion Toman will be considered as the initial capital of the Fund, which will begin in the first step of the fund with thousands of Toman.
He said the Saffron Fund will play a major role in the supply chain management, distribution and export as it will be a major source of funding for the saffron, benefiting from the benefits of the fund over the next two months.
The official said the order was about 68 tons of guaranteed saffron purchases, adding that the central rural cooperative organization bought saffron to protect farmers in deprived areas, and to boost exports and prevent the devaluation of this product, saffron would be traded on the stock exchange Buyers Delivered. Meanwhile, about 45 tons of saffron have been sold on stock exchanges, and a significant portion has been exported.
According to Sherzad, there are no concerns about the production, supply and export of saffron and the market is managed.
He said about the guaranteed and agreed-upon purchases of products: Over the past three months, more than 3 million tons of products have been purchased as collateral and consignment, of which 1,500,000 tons of wheat were guaranteed and 510,000 tons of other products were agreed upon. . On the other hand, about seven thousand tons of garlic and saffron have been bought and exported in the last three months.
Shirzad announced the construction of two thousand square meters of direct supply of goods and agricultural products in urban areas, saying that these centers have been established in order to access agricultural unions and cooperatives to urban markets near urban areas. Meanwhile, the central rural cooperatives have been marketing, marketing, and exporting 190,000 kinds of agricultural products for sale, purchase and sale.
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