ISNA reported saffron Council
30% reduction in the production of red gold / fear of disorganization planting
Secretary of the National Council saffron saffron production decreased by 30 percent this year, and said: The remaining part of the production for domestic needs and export saffron no shortage last year.
Farshid Manouchehri in an interview with ISNA, said this year due to thermal shocks that saffron bulbs were imported, the flowering of this product fell to appear this year with a decrease of about 30 percent of the saffron face, of course due to the increased The area under cultivation is about 83 thousand hectares in the country this year is expected to produce 180 to 190 tons of saffron.
He added that due to the fact that about 20 to 25 tons from last year remains saffron and saffron exports last year were about 140 different countries, it seems that this is no problem for the domestic and export needs no be.
Saffron National Council said it decreased production of fuel we have created opportunities for speculators and profiteers to increase demand for saffron raise its price and the market price bubble is formed.
Manouchehri said Iran is of course very small competitors market their own produce and can cause little damage to Iranian saffron market. This year India was the saffron, since they are also faced with the problem of flowering and harvesting the same problem that led to the price increase of saffron in India.
Non-planning saffron, a farmers driven to the Minister of Agriculture
He said a letter from the National Council of saffron to the Minister of Agriculture submitted to the disorganization in which saffron is concerned. Because if this year due to the cultivation of this product was produced 83 thousand 320 tons of saffron about 20 tons more than the world needs, Iranian saffron was what fate?
Manouchehri said in such circumstances that there are only ships with non-planning price cuts and more non-economic saffron culture it was realized that in such cases are usually selected for the cultivation of alternative crops, but farmers and KHORASAN in South Khorasan Razavi no other product can replace it, and in this situation are forced to fellow traffickers or on the outskirts of the workers become consumers.
Saffron National Council said the government looked to saffron should be specific and strategic, because if the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade and Agriculture Iranian saffron sit on their hands rather than other countries in the future certainly will be.
He said that so far no response from the Ministry of Agriculture correspondence and manufacturers do not concerns, said officials of the Ministry of Agriculture should be asked whether the present study on consumption and other uses, such as saffron pharmaceutical and health implications of it carried out, unless Not that saffron is one of the best herbal medicines in the different applications. So why not make it look great?
Manufacturers suggested to the government to regulate saffron
Saffron National Council said several years, the National Assembly set up the fund or bank saffron crocus plan presented to the public with its primary credit loans to be established, but the proposal has been implemented.
He said that the project can be established saffron prices in the domestic and global markets, said if the fund can be established saffron exporters who purchase from producers or groups of saffron and a product that is in the form The plan to improve the quality of production has been purchased, up to 50 percent of facilities offer, then we can encourage manufacturers to improve the quality of design, product quality produce.
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