Payment of all claims of saffron farmers in North Khorasan
Jalil Ramezani stated:
With the support of the Board of Directors and the Managing Director of the Central Organization of Rural Cooperatives of Iran,
Saffron support purchase plan in North Khorasan province with launch A shopping mall in the city of Farouj, With the guidance of the North Khorasan Rural Cooperatives Union, it became active.
He added:
This year, 761 kilograms of saffron worth 74 billion rials from 158 Saffron was purchased in the province.
He stated:
Most saffron purchased in terms of weight from a farmer 24 kg and the minimum was 425 grams.
Ramezani said:
During this period, 259 saffron weighing bills have been delivered to the shopping center.
Regarding the pricing of the purchased product, he said:
After sampling the delivered product and sending it to the standard laboratory, Saffron is priced by the laboratory in the form of 4 grades.
Ramezani added:
Rural Cooperative Organization as the executor, excellent supervision of the purchase plan, He is in charge of supervising, storing and compiling the regulations, instructions and security of the purchase. In the last two decades, the development of saffron cultivation and production in North Khorasan has been on the rise. So that from the level of 343 hectares with production About 6 tons in 2007 to the level of three thousand and 850 hectares And production has reached about 18 tons this year.
Saffron is cultivated in eight cities of this province and Farooj city With an area of more than 2,000 hectares and an annual production of about 12 tons, it has the first place And the cities of Shirvan and Esfarayen are in the second and third ranks of production.
Cultivation and production of saffron creates good employment And each hectare of saffron in the planting process, Having and harvesting and processing a direct job and about 180 to 200 indirect jobs And it creates a season.
Currently, 5 saffron processing and packaging units are active in Farooj and Shirvan counties These units have created employment for 28 people.
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