Doubling of saffron cultivation in neighboring Iran
According to the Afghan Minister of Agriculture, saffron cultivation in Herat province (neighboring Khorasan Razavi) has increased by 100% and this year has reached more than 15 tons.
Nasir Ahmad Durrani in the ceremony that started the executive operations of the saffron training and production center in Herat province added: the amount of saffron harvest last year was 7 tons, which this year has increased to more than 15 tons.
Regarding this institute in Afghanistan, Durrani added: This center covers all activities from breeding to marketing.
According to the Minister of Agriculture of Afghanistan, Turkey is going to be a big customer of our saffron along with China.
In this country, saffron plant has more than 106 thousand hectares and the annual production is between 355 to 365 tons.Of the amount of saffron produced in this country, about 250 tons are exported.
In 2008, about 500 kg of this crop was harvested, which has become a factor to encourage farmers to plant this crop, especially in Herat. In the very early years of saffron cultivation in Afghanistan, training in its cultivation was included in their work manual, and by distributing onions in other provinces of the country, they made it prosperous, although they have not yet been able to reduce the desirability of poppy cultivation compared to saffron.Doubling of saffron cultivation in neighboring Iran, Iranian saffron export, doubling of saffron cultivation in neighboring country, saffron harvest, saffron cultivation, economic prosperity in saffron, medicinal plants, saffron market, saffron cultivation in neighboring Iran, saffron in
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