New rules for the export of saffron and the intensification of trade

New rules for the export of saffron and the intensification of trade

While saffron production growth is good, some laws enacted last year to reduce the export and trafficking of this product.

Ali in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency of Agriculture (ISNA), said the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the export of saffron in the final months of last year, a new law imposed an export tax if they are exporters of agricultural crops are not considered to be a national code Saffron bought it offer.

He said the law gave farmers fear that national codes will be deprived of state subsidies, their saffron exporters sell their products to brokers and intermediaries that saffron instead to send traffic to other countries sell and this trend resulted in a decline in exports last year with saffron face.

be it in the form of subsidies are clear.

Government to facilitate the export of saffron in India and China consult
Hosseini said that countries like India and China, despite major consumer of Iranian saffron asked Iranian saffron is considered high tariffs to imports of the same product makes it through countries like UAE Iranian saffron to purchase en masse to India and China be issued.

He said the Ministry of Agriculture and the government is expected to consult with the countries able to export saffron to India and China and facilitate more exchange technology to bring agricultural exports by value.

300 tons of saffron this year
Saffron National Council said due to favorable rains at the end of last year and continued until the end of the harvest season so far seem to be appropriate if weather conditions saffron harvest of 80 thousand hectares planted this product to around 300 tonnes.

Hosseini said the acreage of about 80 hectares of saffron is harvested 400 tons of saffron this year, is expected when at least five kilograms of productivity per unit area and the more than 400 people to produce less harmful is over.

He said the Ministry of Agriculture as the custodian of saffron production and domestic and foreign market agricultural products more than ever before to be able to boost production and exports more exchange technology to the country.