Saffron was not packaging industry

Saffron was not packaging industry

Director of Horticulture in North Khorasan Agricultural Jihad Organization said there is no packing industries of saffron in the province and 100 percent due to the lack of such industries as raw product out of province.

Heydar Namur in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency, North Khorasan region, renowned pointed out that production in the province is faced with many problems, he said: saffron bulbs to farmers with various prices from other provinces, such as Khorasan and the South and price stability in the market for saffron bulbs there is often a high price to buy.

He said there was a shortage of onions and saffron modified reference laboratory in order to check the quality of this product from other problems. North Khorasan region is faced with many problems in the production of saffron, saffron bulbs to farmers at prices several other provinces, such as Khorasan, and South and there is price stability in the market for saffron bulbs and often high prices to buy it as well as saffron onion lack of reform and the absence of a reference laboratory in order to check the quality of this product from other problems. Although saffron is the most resistant to water scarcity and drought medicinal plants, an area of 540 hectares planted saffron in the province fertile and infertile 100 hectares.

Namur pointed out that water scarcity and drought resistant saffron important medicinal plants, added: Area planted saffron in the province 540 hectares of fertile and infertile 100 hectares.

He expressed that one of the provinces of North Khorasan is capable of cultivation and production, said the annual 50 hectares of saffron in the province increased acreage. On average, four to five kg of production per hectare.

The official pointed out that saffron is one of the products that generate a lot of jobs associated with the cost of labor for planting, weeding and harvesting, farmers high and it is difficult.