Seno City World Record- Saffron Plantation by Aqueduct
The high standard, utilizing the Qanat irrigation system, its important role in providing food security and livelihood of rural households, agricultural biodiversity, local and indigenous and traditional knowledge are among the issues that have made Iran saffron an important global heritage.
Gonabad saffron is one of the geographic indexes of Iran. The share and rank of Iran’s production and exports in this field is proof that it is the first producer and in terms of quality is unique among other major countries in the world.
This important achievement was achieved by accepting documents and defenses presented at the GIAHS at the FAO headquarters in Rome.
This record was filed with the pilot of the village of Sano in Gonabad city, Khorasan Razavi province.
Masoud Amini, a faculty member of the Islamic Azad University of Gonabad, said: “The dependence of Iran’s economy on oil revenues and the impact of income on political and economic issues has caused the vulnerability of the country’s economy; one of the ways to cope with this challenge.” Development of products that improves the domestic economy will increase non-oil exports. In addition to other products that have such an economic approach, the production of medicinal plants can, in addition to achieving this, have a significant impact on improving the health, well-being and health of the country.
He added: “By turning the world to the use of herbal products in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as in the food and cosmetic industry, and due to the country’s climate diversity, which has led to the diversification and richness of medicinal herbs throughout Iran, the need for comprehensive research And the proper exploitation of these plants for us, which is one of the pioneers of this science, with the personages such as Abu Ali Sina, is very necessary.
This member of the faculty at the Islamic Azad University of Gonabad said: Iran, the world’s largest saffron producer with 95 percent of the total production of this product is worthwhile. The 41 countries in the world are Iran’s red gold buyers, and the main countries are Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland.
Amini stated: The major areas of saffron production are in the province of Razavi and southern Khorasan provinces. The export value is $ 95 million a year due to the need for dehydration of important crops in the arid regions of our country, and the main economies depend on the households located in these areas and are directly and indirectly involved in employment.
Alireza Hosseinzadeh, director of the Agricultural Jihad in Gonabad, said that in the Qanat based saffron farming system, any case that requires registration in this system must meet five criteria including its role in food security and rural household livelihoods, agricultural biodiversity, knowledge Local and traditional, culture and value systems and social organizations, and natural and agricultural tourism, as well as the requesting country should provide a comprehensive action plan for the conservation, protection and development of FAO.
He added: “Of the thousands of requests received from different countries, only fifty-four requests in the whole world have succeeded in passing through the strict process of the FAO registration system that used our country” Qannat Agricultural System in Kashan “in 2014 And “Malayer Grape Manufacturing System” in 2012 as the first and second most important agricultural heritage of our country are among the list.
The head of the Ghanabad Agricultural Jihad stated:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in view of its history and civilization in the agricultural sector and its unique biological diversity, has important capacities in the field of the global heritage of agriculture,
which, in the words of the Minister for Agriculture Jihad with the Director General of FAO, has paid attention to these dimensions And after the registration of Qanat-based agriculture in 2014,
as well as Malayer grape and Qanat-based saffron cultivation,
several other files were completed by the Ministry of Jihad-e-Agriculture last year and submitted to the Secretariat of the World Important World Heritage (GEF) FAO.
Ganabad Governor Hamid Ghorbani also told Tonemid in Gonabad,
a global reporter for the cultivation of saffron based on qannat, which brings the Gonabad-based country’s saffron internationally, which should be explored with the opportunity to develop and prosper.
Tourism was used.
He added: Khorasan province produces 65 percent of the world’s saffron, and Iran is the largest saffron producer in the world.
Governor of Gonabad, said: National celebration of agricultural registration of saffron based on Qanat, May 5, with the presence of provincial and provincial officials in the village of Senno Gonabad city.
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