While saffron production is growing well, lay down some rules last year to reduce exports and increase in smuggling this product.
Ali Hosseini said in an interview with the correspondent of Agricultural Students News Agency (ISNA) said: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance for the export of saffron in the final months of last year passed a new law that If exporters want their product export tax should be considered in national codes of Agriculture that it bought saffron provider.
He added that the law would be farmers fear the national codes would be deprived of getting state subsidies, their saffron exporters sell their products to middlemen and instead Saffron affiliates who sell smuggled to other countries send this trend resulted in a decline in exports last year with saffron face.
Saffron is a member of the National Council said that government officials want to prevent enactment of this Act because of the way the export of saffron as a product with economic value for farmers as not to worry them and If you are not going to remove them from receiving subsidies of the National Code, the issue would have to be clear.
Government to facilitate the export of saffron in India and China consult
Hosseini said Iranian saffron major consumer countries such as India and China, despite high tariffs for imports asked Iranian saffron is considered that This makes this product through countries such as the United Arab Emirates for bulk purchase of Iranian saffron is exported to India and China.
He continued: from the Ministry of Agriculture and the government is expected to consult with the country to facilitate the export of saffron in India and China and More exchange technology to bring agricultural exports by value.
300 tons of saffron this year
Saffron National Council said at the end of last year due to favorable rains and continued until the end of the harvest season so far, it seems that if atmospheric conditions are right Saffron harvest of 80 thousand hectares under cultivation to about 300 tons.
Hosseini added that the acreage of about 80 hectares of saffron is harvested 400 tons of saffron this year, is to be expected because At least five kilograms of productivity per unit area and no matter how we produce 400 tons less harmful is over.
He said the Ministry of Agriculture as the custodian of domestic and foreign production and market agricultural products as Saffron more attention to Able to boost production and exports more exchange technology for our country.
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