The closure of export saffron

The closure of export saffron

The head of Khorasan Razavi Saffron Exporters Union said saffron exports in June this year compared to the same period last year, 25 percent decline.

According to the press center of the economy Iran, Gholam Reza Miri said The growth in May this year 41 percent were in the export saffron In June, exports 25% This is due to a sudden decrease in the price of saffron.

Stating that the price per kilo of saffron from 6 million 600 thousand USD and 7 million USD, said the 50 percent increase in the price of saffron in the period from 40 to 50 days, it is unacceptable, so the market in these sections play an important role he does.

Miri said the market but also the private sector, the government should support the manufacturing and export sectors to create the necessary infrastructure.

There are many games on the market saffron dealer, he pointed out and added that we should have had plenty of saffron in order to avoid price fluctuations because of the sudden increase in prices leads to the closure of export markets.

The head of Khorasan Razavi Saffron Exporters Union stressed that in July, a decline in exports of saffron certainly be said as regards the budgetary policy of the reliance on oil revenues and exports have moved to the private sector, in the hope officials of production and export of saffron support to the efforts of several years of not us.

Miri said currently 47 countries in the world export market has been created, but if manufacturers and exporters Saffron Saffron not support, in addition to the loss of export markets, domestic manufacturers are faced with numerous injuries,

He noted, for example, producing 120 thousand households in southern Khorasan live with the loss of export markets and reduce the production of saffron, are unemployed, while saffron, one of the credit for the country’s goods and exports, we would lose its place in the world.

Miri also noted the Saffron Development Fund: This fund is only on paper and a fund was established from the very beginning of the formation of these unions formed within the framework.

The head of Khorasan Razavi Saffron Exporters Union said that from the beginning it was said that unions can form the fund, but after the change of the board of the Union, Union funds returned and no interest to us, even if there the fund would, if funds It is available for injection molding, the Fund does not have any effect.

He is one of the most important ways of supporting saffron producers of low-cost lending to them and said: Unfortunately, a facility with 25 to 35 percent interest, no competition for producers of saffron leaves, and all our efforts will lead to failure.