Foreign Investment on Iranian Saffron Projects
Dr. Hamed Kaveh, a faculty member and head of the National Institute of Saffron at Torbat Heydarieh University, also said in an interview with Mehr correspondent about the challenges of saffron field: Most exporters are professional exporters of products. If, for example, they do not have saffron, pistachios , Carpet and … and it does not matter to them what to issue.
Head of the Saffron Institute of Torbat-e-Heydarieh University said that the export of saffron through these investors has a good turnover, added: Investors believe that when they get enough money from saffron themselves, then there’s no reason for the time-lapse technology plan Let’s go
Kaveh continued, “The support role of the state through the development of knowledge-based enterprises and accelerators will become even more important here. And if they support several projects and come to the end, the rest of the investors will see what has come up with saffron and what they earn.” Will have more. So much so that investors do not have saffron, they are not interested in creating higher value added; yet, the knowledge base is not sufficiently funded.
According to him, we are seeking to have any support for innovative saffron related initiatives.
He added: “We’ve also been able to connect foreign players to the startup with the connections that the university and the research institute have with countries like the Netherlands and Sweden.”
He continued: “Based on the memoranda we have and supported by proactive food promoters in the Netherlands and Sweden, Iranian saffron initiatives are being supported. This is the medium of Iranian products with foreign investment, so that project executives can register in the same country. This is a situation that threatens current issuing companies.
A member of the faculty at Torbat Heydarieh University added: “We have to go to invest in technological projects because in the next few years we will not have the money investors will receive from the sale of raw saffron; if we do not value added value, economic value We lose ourselves in this regard.
Referring to the challenges facing the way to investing in saffron, he said: “We are also weak in marketing, and we need to supply it based on market demand, because the production capacity of saffron is high, but the processing of this valuable product is low.
Accelerators accelerate the production of Iranian saffron products
The head of the National Institute of Saffron at Torbat-e-Heydarieh University stated that it might take 15 years to not export bulk saffron and offer what the market wants to offer: if we reach a stage where we can produce saffron products, For countries like China, Afghanistan, Chile, the European Union, southern Sweden and many countries, we are threatened with saffron production.
Kaveh argued that if the products produced from saffron were not made and we did not produce the technological products, then bulk sales would be difficult, and stressed that this would mean a revenue deficit and this would have social consequences.
A member of the faculty at Torbat-e-Heidarieh University, saying that an accelerator is planned to support the plans, says: There is a missing link, which is also an accelerator to turn the idea of startup into a product. This field is also being developed with the assistance of scientific and technological deputy in the field of accelerating saffron specialty.
Kaveh added: “Due to this accelerator, technological products can be produced in the form of an international standard.
Since our country has a lot of potential in the field of producing and exporting saffron, for the production and supply of this red gold more than ever, we have to take seriously the warnings of academic and scientific activists in order to manage production and supply in addition to producing other food products and We also take medicine from the saffron plant to achieve more jobs, more revenue and more successful exports.
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