Cooperative Blessing Institute in Saffron Packaging
According to the report of the economic group of the journalists’ club; the raw material of saffron is currently one of the most important problems in the country’s saffron production and export industry, which has been created due to the lack of conversion and packaging industries in saffron growing areas and causing losses to farmers each year. And the export market imports this product.
While the conversion and packaging industries of saffron, in addition to earnings in remote areas, can increase the value added of this product.
Nowadays, the city of Ghaenat due to its geographical location and proper climate is the first to produce saffron in the country and the saffron of this region is the best, the most high quality and most aromatic saffron in the country. Its color, odor and taste have global reputation in the markets. International
Maintaining the reputation of the product name of Saffron Ghaenat in the world and using the economic advantage of this product in the development and development of the region, invests in the construction of conversion and packaging factories in the region.
The blessing foundation accepts the participation of the private sector in the city of Cain in order to eliminate deforestation and help to create employment in the region. The company is in the process of being established in the project of constructing the “Saffron Nafis Qahestan” factory.
Javid Rahimi, director of the Islamabad Agricultural Crop Company, explained the private sector of the project, explaining that this factory has started with the participation of the blessing and bringing the foundation of about 3 billion rials in the first phase of a industrial city in the southern Khorasan province of Qa’en.
He continued: The project is under construction on an area of 3,000 square meters, and with the launch of it, 5 tons of saffron annually will be packaged and packaged.
He noted that for the continuation of the project, 10 billion rials have been applied for and approved by the Agricultural Development Agribusiness Development Task Force of the South Khorasan Province, and the bank is also the Agricultural Bank of the steppe.
Rahimi explained the job creation rate of the project. With the construction of this factory, 30 people will have jobs directly and more than 100 people will be provided with employment indirectly. While other farmers do not have to put their saffron products at a cheap price for brokers, they will have the main benefit.
He noted that now only 20% of the area’s saffron is bought and packaged by the factory in the area, and the rest of the product is bulked to brokers and brokers. The presence of intermediaries in the market has prevented the fixing of the price of saffron and prompts its price increase.
Rahimi said that the construction of this factory will help to expand the region of Cayenne while also reducing the presence of intermediaries in the saffron market of the region. Despite the fact that it is located in the land of red gold (saffron), the inhabitants of the region have less than this advantage and have gained the profit of saffron by intermediaries.
Referring to the difference in the price of packaging and bulk in the market, he pointed out: now the premium sorghum is 5 million and 425 thousand tomans each, but the price of one kilo of saffron packaging is at least one million and 500 thousand tomans.
He said that the development of such packaging plants in the region, in addition to creating added value, will add to the profits made by the farmers and will boost agricultural production in the region.
The Blessing Foundation affiliated with the Executive Directorate of Imam Khomeini’s command has been working on individual and collective entrepreneurship and establishing a company with real or legal persons in the field of launching economic projects in less-favored areas of the country. The Bloc Foundation aims to increase investment in these areas to 40 trillion rials for entrepreneurship and empowerment of deprived areas.
Meanwhile, the Foundation has invested more than 13,600 billion rials in this regard.
All financially profitable, economically viable, productive, entrepreneurial, and impoverished activities are eligible for partnership with the foundation of the blessing, provided that at least 51% of the shares It belongs to the private sector.
The Blessed Foundation’s policy for the development of the private sector if the investor’s willingness to engage in less developed regions of the country is that within two to five years from the commencement of the partnership, the sale of its shares to the shareholder of the partner, based on the agreement reached Cash or installment. In the event of refusal of potential partners to purchase stock from the Foundation, the Barclay Foundation Foundation has the right to transfer its shares to indigenous and local people working in the project, according to its strategic standards.
source: yjc /ir

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