Increasing Iran’s saffron competitors
Horticulture director of Khorasan Razavi Agricultural Jihad Organization said:
Afghanistan, China and Morocco are becoming serious competitors of Iran in saffron production.
Mohammad Reza Ghodsi stated:
Due to the economic justification of saffron production, China,
Afghanistan and even Morocco have entered this field and due to cheap labor costs,
these countries will become a serious competitor for Iran.
He added:
Iranian saffron has threats in the sectors of production, processing,
trade and commerce that we have warned about in the past few years.
Ghodsi considered the support of European countries for saffron production in Afghanistan as another reason for planting
this crop in this country and specified:
European countries consider saffron as a good alternative in poppy fields.
The horticultural director of the Khorasan Razavi Agricultural Jihad Organization
cited the United Arab Emirates and Spain as the countries with the most words in the saffron trade.
Ghodsi stated that the ideal saffron farms are 100% effective and useful, adding:
The level of these farms is currently small,
which can be considered by allocating more funds to different regions of the province and even parts of South Khorasan
to Act as educational farms for the surrounding villages.
Ghodsi announced the development of a comprehensive saffron program for the problems of the production,
processing and trade sectors of this product and said:
the different sectors of saffron production have a direct relationship with each other and should grow simultaneously.
In this comprehensive program, all the problems have been observed and solutions have been provided for them,
for the implementation of which we need credit.
Ghodsi reminded:
creating international exhibitions,
using embassies and offices outside Iran to promote and introduce Iranian saffron
and approving the price of this product for export are other solutions in the saffron trade sector.
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