Chinese Saffron concern sales in this province!
Advisor to the National Council of Saffron said: I am worried that one day in the streets and alleys of the Chinese Khorasan saffron face a third of the price.
According to ISNA in Khorasan, Behzad Sadeghi said foreign countries can not tolerate Iranian saffron profitability and the risk that the plant would be the Interior Ministry special attention to it.
He criticized the moratorium on the implementation of the master plan Saffron said the plan to persist, it took four years to prepare and national officials concerned that such a delay, but the project is currently stalled and the country come to Chinese, saffron.
Sadeghi concerned saffron production in areas that benefit from adequate water, said if all of the aliment Khorasani saffron produce what will come? Western and northern provinces could grow enough rain and other products and we have to do this we need to mediate the Interior Ministry.
He continued: If one day Khorasan saffron is the world market and the drought continued to put pressure on the province, the task of saffron farmers to dry their subterranean and can not do anything else, what?
Advisor to the National Assembly that the saffron saffron come gradually opens to the world, said today applicant Iranian saffron.
Saffron is the best alternative to oil
Sadeghi said that the saffron two to three times more revenue than oil, said oil revenues at a time when our country is looking for saffron can be the best alternative to oil.
Stating that exceeded $ 400 million last Saffron exchange technology and the number of all non-oil exports of the province, said that while the country all the same one billion dollar acquisition of oil and saffron attention is not given.
Sadeghi saffron water efficiency as one of the unique features of this product range and added, due to the drought in the last 15 years and severe droughts in the next two decades, saffron thirst According to international organizations, with 0.03 liters per second is removed and the minimum amount of water for a family of five earning enough will save them from migrating to cities.
Interior Ministry should also take steps in this regard.
Advisor to the National Council of saffron, referring to the more than 80 thousand hectares of saffron in the province of South Khorasan, said the land is managed by 160 thousand users, they directly depend on the saffron, the addition of about 100 to 200 thousand people involved in the distribution of saffron and saffron can say that a population of about one million people in the province runs.
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