Saffron profit in the pocket of speculators
Mohammad Reza Amiri Kahnouj, a member of the parliament’s agricultural committee, told the Economics Reporter of the Journalists’ Club that saffron production requires government support and accurate planning. Considering the serious and new rivals found in the saffron debate, the importance of this valuable and valuable product It looks like before.
He added: “The price of saffron bought in this year has decreased compared to last year, and the profit of a hundred thousand tens of tons of sales of each kilogram of saffron flower to speculators.
Representatives of Kerman, Kahnouj and Manoajan continued: Afghanistan and China compete in producing saffron with Iran, while this competition is not in terms of quality and quality of Iranian saffron is not comparable to other parts of the world.
He said: More than 90 to 96 percent of the world’s saffron is produced in Iran, but there is no such profit to the country, and the lack of support for saffron production is a major factor.
The MP said that the country’s harvest was at most 4 kg / ha, while Afghanistan has about 7-10 kg / ha, and paying attention to increasing cultivation and harvest per hectare will contribute quantitatively and qualitatively to economic and agricultural progress. .
He added that saffron consumption in the food and food sector is limited, and the need to look at the drug’s properties in advertising and expert-examination work is needed in the media.
Amiri Kahnouj pointed out that the packaging industry is in the supply of products of great importance and packaging is the missing link of the saffron industry, which is currently exported bulk to countries like Spain, and after packaging with high prices and value The added amount is sent to different parts of the world.
“Reducing mediation and rising prices will encourage farmers, and saffron can be used as a strategic product and as an oil counterpart in foreign exchange and investment,” he said.
He added that product isolation is considered to be a weakness in several provinces and by locating and identifying the provinces to increase the planting of climate-compatible crops.
At the end of the conference, experts said, “By studying the status of the provinces and paying attention to low water provinces, saffron production is approaching quantitative increase and export exports.
source: yjc /ir
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