Significant smuggling of saffron bulbs to Afghanistan
Member of the National Assembly referred to the trafficking impressive saffron saffron bulbs to Afghanistan, said that if this trend continues, the country as a major producer of Iranian saffron is replaced.
Ali Hosseini told the Mehr smuggling Iranian saffron bulbs to Afghanistan, said more than 7 or 8 years it is, while every year when harvesting of saffron bulbs (replacing the bulb) comes, unfortunately, deal traffickers, Frsttlbany profiteers and destroy the country’s national interests, is found.
He added that every year a lot of different ways of saffron bulbs to Afghanistan is out of the country, and so each year we are witnessing the development of the crop in that country.
or control soon be replaced Afghanistan as the main producer of saffron in the region to Iran.
Hosseini said that I believe should be the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, the Interior Ministry, border guards and customs to solve this problem together, they added, is the question everyone says I am not responsible for, finally, who is responsible for this issue? This is not something that can be passed with indifference from the side.
Hosseini said that we are seeing many areas in southern Khorasan saffron cultivation goodbye, they said in return areas in Afghanistan is under cultivation and the cultivation they added.
National Council stating that the cultivation of saffron red gold in South Khorasan is now between 10 and 15 thousand hectares, said the number of years that have been preserved and developing cultivation, while in some villages that saffron cultivation format, and now this culture is gone and instead Zrshkkary.
Hosseini said that while in Khorasan Razavi culture is very poor at present cultivated area of more than 60 thousand hectares.
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