The current price of Iranian saffron flowers is not economical
Mohammad Hossein Taybi Se Gonbad is one of the Farooji farmers who owns a 35-hectare saffron farm. He said:
The price of saffron flowers is low and this price is not economical for the main farmers.
He pointed out that saffron harvest has been started in North Khorasan for about 10 days, adding:
the purchase and sale price of saffron flowers was initially 150,000 or higher,
but yesterday at a price of 80,000 to 90,000 Tomans bought from a farmer.
Taybi continued:
There is no supervision over the purchase of saffron flowers in this city, and everyone has entered to buy.
In response to the question that the market for buying saffron flowers was created in order to clarify the price and centralized purchase
of saffron flowers in Farooj.
Taybi pointed out:
the presence of brokers in the region has reduced the price of saffron flowers,
and on the other hand, the point is that all brokers are in harmony with each other and all of them announce a price and the farmer
is forced to Be able to sell your product at the same price, because saffron flowers can not be kept and plasticized, in which case its value is reduced.
Given the outbreak of the coronavirus this year, we are not facing a shortage of workers, he said.
Workers come to collect flowers following health guidelines,
but the price should be such that it is affordable for the farmer to pay the worker.” Pay and make a profit according to his current expenses.
This saffron of Farooji’s work continued:
the cost of a worker is 90 to 120 thousand Tomans, but a worker can harvest saffron flowers during the day,
except for how much, and on the other hand, the amount of wages for cleaning saffron
is 17 thousand Tomans per kilogram and should be about overnight.
Three tons of saffron should be cleaned, as a result, the purchase price of saffron flowers at 90,000 Tomans is not economical at all.
If the trend continues, we will plow the land and plant wheat and barley in other years, he said.
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