Spain sells Iranian saffron 20 times the purchase price!
About 90% of the world’s saffron is produced in Iran and the production of this product in Iran has a long history, but in the world Iranian saffron is known by Spanish brands and saffron from Iran in bulk or non-commercial packages and retail uses legally and illegally and suitcases from Iran. going out.
Mohammad Ali Tahmasebi, Deputy Minister of Jihad for Agriculture, said in relation to the area under cultivation of this crop in Iran and the world: out of 122 thousand hectares of global saffron cultivation, about 115 thousand hectares belong to Iran, ie about 90% of production and area of saffron cultivation to Iran It is dedicated and only about 5000 hectares of saffron are cultivated in neighboring countries.
Also, Hossein Zeinali, the executor of the Medicinal Plants Project of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture, said in connection with the valuation of this product: Last year, 280 tons of saffron were exported outside Iran and had a value of $ 350 million for Iran; In the first five months of this year, despite all the cases and problems, 76 tons of saffron were exported.
Based on this figure of exports and currency exchange, the average export of each kilogram of Iranian saffron was 16 million and 250 thousand tomans (calculated in dollars 13 thousand tomans), which includes exports in bulk and in small packages; This figure shows that the main exports of this product have been in bulk and at low prices.
Meanwhile, saffron in Iran is bought from farmers for a maximum of 5.10 million tomans per kilogram and is sold in bulk at prices of about 1000 to 1500 dollars or 13 to 20 million tomans. Iranian saffron is even sold in bulk at low prices at international online shopping sites such as Alibaba, Amazon and eBay.
However, Iranian saffron is known with packaging and brand of other countries such as Spain and is priced at a minimum price of 90 million Tomans per kilogram and in some cases up to 265 million Tomans per kilogram and is sold as a luxury product!
For example, on the American ebay site, each one-gram package of saffron of a brand is priced at 15 to 20 dollars or 195 thousand tomans to 260 thousand tomans, depending on its quality, and the price of each kilogram of this product is 195 million tomans to 260 million tomans. On the Amazon site, each gram of Iranian saffron packaged by other countries is priced up to 30 dollars or 390 thousand tomans, and the price of each kilogram of this product is about 390 million tomans.
Of course, Zeinli said in this regard: Iran’s backwardness in the world export market is being eliminated. If the budget is allocated to this important issue, the Iranian private sector will create an organization called Osk, like OPEC, in the field of saffron, so that the countries that are active in the field of production of this product in the world will come together with Iran.
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