Saffron Council announced
Saffron production decrease / increase of one million USD price
Secretary of the National Council saffron saffron production decreased about 30 percent this year and said: The price of a kilo of saffron, with an increase of one million USD reached about five million and 500 thousand dollars and dealers in these circumstances that the authorities plan to regulate the market and export Saffron, they determine rates for this product.
Farshid Manouchehri in an interview with ISNA, said this year due to a decrease in flowering saffron production will decrease by about 30 percent due to weather conditions, so that around 250 tons of saffron are produced in the country appear to This year is about 180 reduced.
Saffron export market and not to determine the rate of the product and the product purchased from farmers in the hope that they can sell more than a million dollars to keep their warehouses.
Saffron National Council continued: Ministry of Agriculture this year will focus on law enforcement duties, commercial agriculture is only in charge of production, have to saffron as a national strategic plan is the product. Iran, which generates more than 95 percent since the saffron in the world, stirred by the Ministry of Agriculture to support the producers of this product and it is serious and sensitive.
Saffron Development Fund launched the proposal to the Ministry of Agriculture
Manouchehri said the Ministry of Agriculture should support organizations and private sector unions. The Ministry of Agriculture has proposed that the National Assembly Saffron Saffron Export Development Fund 150 million dollars in the form of credit facilities to be set up.
Saffron National Council said, according to the proposal stated that the exporters could export 50% for last year’s Saffron facilities without the use of the fund. Provided that the purchase saffron farmers who participate in schemes to improve the quality of saffron.
Saffron is a million 600 thousand USD rates fluctuate in a month
Foreign and stabilize.
He said that America is the most important agricultural production for export pistachio and pomegranate are subsidies to its exporters to find their place in the exports of its own., But Iran, which generates more than 95 percent of saffron, no plans to export the product and supporting farmers.
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