95 percentage of saffron products are exported in bulk
“We are not looking for a little bit of saffron, but the quality of saffron is more important than its quantity,” said the Ministry of Jihad-e-Agriculture Ministry of Medicines. “Of course, medicinal plants such as saffron are expanding, and in order to increase this expansion, knowledge and technology in production should be updated.” .
Hossein Zeynli said: “The turnover of saffron in the country is 400 million dollars, which is 350 million dollars overseas and 50 million dollars inside, while the turnover in the world is 8 million dollars, given that Iran The largest producer of saffron in the world. European countries do not recognize us as the main producers, and most of Spain is concerned.
He stated that Khorasan Razavi is the harbor of saffron in the country, he said: farmers are concerned about the production of saffron, and the strengthening and protection of the private sector should be done using state-of-the-art knowledge by the government today.
The director of the Medicinal Plants Department of the Ministry of Jihad-e-Agriculture noted that the world’s wolf is absorbed into saffron and saffron is standardized, but the export situation of saffron is very worrisome as 90 to 95 percent of Iranian saffron bulk is exported to other countries. And only 5% is packed in packages with one gram.
Zainli pointed out that, unfortunately, we have been working poorly on saffron products, said: The government’s duty is to grow the private sector without any prospect, and 50 to 55 percent of the country’s medicinal plants are produced in Khorasan Razavi.
He emphasized the importance of saffron products in the country’s economy and continued: It is necessary to create an enterprise in the country to introduce new knowledge on saffron production.
According to Khorasan Razavi, Director of Horticulture, the Director General of Horticulture, said: Khorasan Razavi, with 86,000 hectares of land, takes about 300 to 310 tons of saffron, and due to dehydration, some other farmers are turning to saffron cultivation and cultivation.
Seyyed Hashemi Najibi added: “In the province, about 2,000 to 2,500 hectares of land are grown annually in Saffron, while saffron products increase the volume of domestic and foreign consumption, while the average of Khorasan Razavi Farms in thousands of meters from three It gives up to three kilos and 500 kg of saffron.
Referring to the fact that no soil is suitable for saffron cultivation, he reminded: “We are trying to help farmers to improve their products both qualitatively and slightly.”
Following on this special round-table discussion, the CEO of the Khorasan Razavi Rural Cooperative Union emphasized that the highest production of saffron in Iran, especially in Khorasan Razavi, said that there are problems in this sector, including market fluctuations, production and security problems We hope that the problems at the meetings will also be solved.
Amir Masoud Pejmanpour added that saffron should be standardized and, to this end, we can not find our place in the market, and standardization will only be done through the stock exchange.
In the following, Gholamreza Karimi, a saffron producer, said that the supply and demand for goods and the price of goods should be discovered on the commodity exchange, adding that the car industry should be produced at the production stage and that the transparency of the production chain should be clarified so that the dealers The benefit of farmers will be shortened.
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