Doubling the price of saffron does not cover production costs

Doubling the price of saffron does not cover production costs

According to the Vice President of the National Saffron Council, although the price of each kilogram of saffron has more than doubled, the current price does not cover the cost of production.
Gholamreza Miri announced that the cost of saffron production this year is between six and ten million tomans per kilogram. This is while the price of this product last year was between 4 million and 200 thousand tomans to 5 million and 400 tomans.
He added: Supply and demand determine the price of saffron. But despite the doubling of the price of saffron, the price of this product is not reasonable in the face of rising costs.

Miri continued: Last year, the cleaning rate per 100 kg of saffron was 500 to 700 Tomans for each worker. But now the wages of workers for each kilo of saffron is between 15 to 20 thousand tomans.

Each worker cleans three kilograms of saffron a day, which amounts to about 15 to 20 million tomans per month.
He reminded that our country has the first rank in the production and export of saffron, the export of Iranian saffron has been growing by 46% since the beginning of this year.
The price of a kilo of saffron in the world market is between $ 600 and $ 1,400, and we hope that the base price of this product will increase from $ 1,450 to $ 1,070, saffron exports, Miri said.
He considered the per capita consumption of saffron between 3 to 5 and said: doubling the price of saffron has reduced domestic consumption. Before this, saffron consumption was less than 1 gram for each Iranian.
In recent years, the production capacity of this product has been more than three hundred tons per year, while in 1989, the production of saffron was 30 tons per year.
80 tons of saffron are exported for domestic consumption and the rest to other countries.
The price of saffron decreased sharply last year and reached less than 3 million tomans, so much so that the Ministry of Agriculture purchased about 67 tons of saffron in the form of support purchases.

In 1397, the Central Organization of Rural Cooperatives began to modernize and standardize saffron, so that according to the commercial information of this organization, 250 tons of saffron worth $ 356 million with an average price of $ 970 per kilogram and a maximum of $ 1300 in the markets Internationally issued.