Dream weaving stock for Iranian saffron
We offer saffron on the stock exchange for export. I give good news that the price of saffron will increase and reach twice the current market rate. Saffron should be 16 million tomans per kilogram. These are part of the speeches of Alireza Ghanizadeh, CEO of the Rural Cooperative of the country, and he emphasized these speeches in one of the news sections of Sima that we want to act in favor of the farmer.
The decision to offer the stock of saffron bought in the support purchase plan is expressed while according to market participants, due to overproduction, reduced purchasing power and export problems caused by the spread of the corona, we are facing the accumulation of saffron in the domestic market.
The vice-president of the National Saffron Council says he is surprised by such a decision and analysis: Maybe they want to do a miracle and make the two equal to five.
Gholamreza Miri adds: The market is so stagnant that we have not yet received the money for the saffron we sold in February and March of last year, and when we refer to the sellers, they say that nothing has been sold, let us take your saffron. With this in mind, how does the supply of 74 tons of saffron purchased with support to the market, while it is still in the hands of farmers and saffron traders, lead to a doubling of the price of saffron?
He adds the maximum effect of the words of the CEO of the Rural Cooperative for several days due to the psychological effects: We grew up with these tricks. These words make the saffron market worse.
Is this measure aimed at providing the necessary credit to pay the government debt to saffron growers? Miri answers our questions in the affirmative and gives us the details of the meetings that were held in the presence of MPs and some officials of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture as follows: On April 17 and May 15 this year, meetings were held on the same subject in Tehran. My point was that providing 138 billion tomans to pay the debts of saffron farmers is not a figure for the government. MPs also confirmed that they would help the government to provide this figure. I emphasized that the purchased saffron should not be offered in order to support the farmer.
Repeating the Mafia experience?
A member of the board of the National Saffron Council has a similar view.
Seyyed Ali Hosseini, knowing that it is impossible to double the price of saffron after being offered on the stock exchange, describes Ghanizadeh’s speeches as unprofessional and states that it is due to the lack of sufficient information about the situation of the saffron market.
He considers the maximum price of saffron in the market to be 8 million Tomans and continues: I do not know with what analysis and motivation he spoke.
Hosseini adds: Perhaps the experience of 3 years ago is that the rural cooperative bought saffron for 3-4 million tomans from a farmer and then sold it to those who did not work in the field of saffron at all through stockbroking and brokerage. The price of saffron quadrupled, a lot of money went into the pockets of certain people and nothing reached the farmer.
This saffron market expert stated that accelerating the development of saffron cultivation is another result of that policy and added: this scenario is not applicable with this year’s conditions. At that time, we had a jump in the dollar exchange rate, our export markets did not have a problem, and the plane fare to transport saffron to the Gulf countries was finally $ 5, no.
Current $ 420.
The member of the board of the National Saffron Council ends his speech with a question: What is going to happen now that the price of saffron will double? Should the dollar rate be 40,000 Tomans or should there be a special opening in the export markets?
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