Spain and UAE profitable with Iranian saffron

Spain and UAE profitable with Iranian saffron

Saffron has played an important role in non-oil exports of the country, with Iran providing 96 percent of the world’s saffron. Looking at the statistics last year, the export of this profitable product was 206 tons of saffron worth 286 million dollars, according to Mahmoud Bazarry, Director General of the Office Harmonization of Export of Agricultural Products and Conversion Industries During the first eight months of 1997, Iranian saffron worth $ 250 million, with a weight of 170 tons, has been exported to different countries, which has a significant increase over the same period last year.
Processing, Exporting and Producing Factors Affecting the Valuation of Saffron
Processing, export and production rank first to third in terms of the importance of influencing the value of saffron crops. According to Fatemeh Rastgaripour, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Researcher of Saffron Research Institute of Torbat Heydarieh University, processing is the most important and most important indicator of Saffron Valuation, which includes two groups of brands and advertisements, the registration of a national brand in international societies The symbol of saffron of Iran is empty. Packing, compliance with global standards, packaging, elegant design and customer desire are of great importance.
Advertising is another branch of production that many experts believe will not be profitable until a product of Iran’s saffron is introduced to the world. Impact factors such as lack of coherent organization in buying, selling, distributing and packaging, unknown characteristics and saffron processing for the people of the world, the lack of use of skilled and educated workers in the field of production and marketing, and the existence of barriers to entry of all types of machines and materials They are also effective in processing and packaging (reducing processing costs).
Brokers, unauthorized exporters, and poor quality exports are among the second factors, which caused a small amount of export of saffron.
Production is a third indicator that affects the value of saffron, which neglects production, causes some problems such as smuggling saffron bulbs to other countries and individually working saffron because of the lack of cooperative companies, as well as the unwillingness of farmers to produce and thus reduce the level Cultivate and reduce production.
Spain and UAE profitable with Iranian saffron
Spain bought Iran saffron in bulk and then re-packaged it with Spanish saffron, so the world knows Spain as the world’s largest saffron exporter.
The UAE has not lost its sight, and by buying Iranian saffron on a daily basis and weekly by unprofessional brokers and merchants with a mixture of impurities with Iranian packaging and Iran’s standard mark, saffron blended and undeveloped to the Gulf countries, Africa and China exports.