Harvesting 36 tons of dried saffron from Torbat Heydariyeh farms
Harvesting 36 tons of dried saffron from Torbat Heydariyeh farms was the result recorded in a local season report covering 8,200 hectares. The same account ... Read More...
The most saffron city in Iran and the world hosts foreign tourism tours
Torbat Heydariyeh used its autumn saffron harvest to welcome domestic and foreign tourism tours into the fields. Fourteen groups were reported as planned or ready ... Read More...
Harvesting 400 tons of saffron flowers from Quchan farms
Harvesting 400 tons of saffron flowers from Quchan farms was the forecast for a season covering 800 hectares. The same report projected about four tonnes ... Read More...
Saffron was harvested for the first time in Gachsaran city
Gachsaran’s first reported saffron harvest came from a one-hectare pilot created to diversify rural income. Twenty-eight applicants in 14 villages joined the wider programme, while ... Read More...
Beginning of saffron harvest in Torbat Heydariyeh and Zaveh
The beginning of saffron harvest in Torbat Heydariyeh and Zaveh brings a short, intense season to the fields of Khorasan Razavi. Purple flowers appear over ... Read More...
Iran’s Saffron Harvest: Manual Picking, Prices and Export Markets
Iran's saffron harvest begins in early autumn, builds quickly toward a short peak, and is still dominated by hand-picking. Historical reports collected here describe the ... Read More...
Harvesting of European saffron at Urmia University was key
Urmia University marked the first saffron harvest from a 400-square-metre indoor cultivation hall three months after the centre was established. The original headline called it ... Read More...
Harvesting saffron from 33 hectares of farms in Rabar city
A historical saffron harvest in Rabar city was forecast at about 120 kilograms of dried saffron from 33 planted hectares. The season ran from mid-November ... Read More...
Iranian saffron in the most expensive hamburger in the world
Iranian saffron played a small but memorable part in London's £1,100 Glamburger: Canadian lobster was poached in saffron before being layered over a rich beef-and-venison ... Read More...
Could smuggled saffron corms create a Chinese rival?
Moving saffron corms across a border can transfer the crop’s planting material, but it does not by itself establish a new commercial rival. A competitive ... Read More...