Head of Khorasan Razavi Saffron Exporters Association said, according to removing barriers to exports in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, we have seen a 21 percent increase saffron exports.
Gholam Reza Miri in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Khorasan region, stated:At present barriers to export, such as toll and the need to obtain the National Farmers code has been removed by issuers, but You can not expect to suddenly be transformed exports.
He added: confidence, attract the attention of customers and gain target markets certainly will take time because the last few years due to barriers saffron exports have been large losses.
Miri said the current barrier for export of saffron is not certain, but there are obstacles in the way of export promotion remains.
Khorasan Razavi Saffron,Saffron Exporters Union Chairman of fluctuating prices in the country cited as one of the obstacles to the development saffron and said:Given that the target countries are fluctuation in the price of saffron saffron Iran when the distance increases to 500 dollars a month they would not be justified.
He added that the high cost of transportation other barriers that impede the export of saffron, saffron given that carried the entire air transport product between 100 million and 500 thousand dollars to a thousand dollars cost, and this the high costs of countries like Spain, which makes us unable to compete export of Iranian saffron.
Miri pointed out that the third generation is fluent in Spanish saffron market, stating:Us Against Spain we are a developing country and we certainly can not compete with them, but Due to the good work that has been done in this situation gradually improves.
He also took positive measures in the private sector for packaging saffron spoke and said:We have a capacity of 450 tons of saffron packaging has been created by the private sector and we are fully prepared for packaging the saffron produced in our country, but the necessary infrastructure must be created for this purpose.
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