Gardening please Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi said: Afghanistan, China and Morocco to become serious competitors in saffron production in Iran.
Mohammad Reza Ghodsi the an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Khorasan region, stated: Due to the economical production of saffron, China, Afghanistan and Morocco entered the field and because of the cheap cost of labor, the country’s rival Iran becomes serious.
He added that Iranian saffron in manufacturing, processing, trade and commerce with threats in the past few years have reminded them.
Sacred protect European countries from saffron production in Afghanistan Another reason for planting this crop in the country, he said, European countries, saffron is considered a good alternative to poppy fields.
He said the quality of the Afghan Saffron: Saffron despite the country’s vast production of higher quality than they say that saffron saffron Iran.
Gardening please Agriculture Organization of the United Arabic Emirates Khorasan Razavi and Spain as countries that most characters in the saffron trade, they noted.
He saffron production costs as one of the ways to compete in producing the product name and said increased yield per unit area, including its solution so that Saffron average of 3.5 kilograms per hectare should reach 7 to 8 kg. There is little credibility in recent years, efforts to increase this average in a saffron farms were ideal.
Sacred stating that saffron farms are ideal hundred percent effective and useful, said the current low level fields that can allocate more funds,And even parts of South Khorasan province, considered to nearby villages to act as educational fields.
Sacred saffron of compiling a comprehensive plan for the problems of production, processing and trade of this product and said: different parts of saffron production has a direct connection with each other and to grow together at the same time. In this comprehensive program to monitor all the problems and ways to implement it for them that are in need of credit. Although approved by the Cabinet in 90 years for the implementation of this program unfortunately still valid for this section have not been implemented.
He saffron Iran’s branding as a strategy to trade the product name and said:This requires infrastructure like genetic record of Iranian saffron which is now the task at hand.
Sacred noted: the creation of international exhibitions, the embassies and offices abroad to promote the adoption price of the product for the export of Iranian saffron and other measures in the saffron trade.
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