Planting wild saffron in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari
Inspection of cultivated saffron corms at a propagation field in the Zagros highlands. “Wild saffron” in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari can mean two different plants, and ... Read More...
Inspection of cultivated saffron corms at a propagation field in the Zagros highlands. “Wild saffron” in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari can mean two different plants, and ... Read More...
A saffron cooperative covering 240 households was announced in Germi County as a way to help growers produce, process, package, and sell their crop more ... Read More...
The Saffron Photo Festival in Torbat-e Heydarieh and Zaveh was created to document more than a colourful autumn harvest. Its photographers followed saffron from the ... Read More...
Police in Sarayan reported seizing two tonnes of saffron corms being transported without the required permit in a Nissan pickup. The 2018 news item valued ... Read More...
Varamin produced a reported 18 kilograms of dried saffron from a little over six hectares when this local account was published. The implied average—about three ... Read More...
Bamyan’s first saffron plantings were demonstration trials, not proof that the crop should replace potatoes across the province. In 2017, agricultural officials reported encouraging results ... Read More...
A small family-run saffron field can create seasonal work, but its success depends on site fit, weather and careful post-harvest handling. The headline Saffron was ... Read More...
Saffron cultivation in Bonab and Marand developed as growers in northwest Iran looked for a valuable crop suited to a dry climate and a cool-season ... Read More...
In Qader Marz, a village in Dehgolan County, Tayeb Qader-Marzi turned a small saffron operation into direct seasonal work for eight people. The original 2018 ... Read More...
Saffron cultivation was expanding in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari when this report was published in 2018, with provincial officials citing 135 hectares under the crop. The ... Read More...