Khorasan Iranian saffron market

Is Khorasan losing the Iranian saffron market? The director of horticulture affairs of Khorasan Razavi Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization said: Razavi and South Khorasan are doomed to cultivate saffron due to dry climate and it is not possible for them to cultivate other crops due to water shortage. Mohammad Reza Ghodsi, while strongly opposing the cultivation of saffron [...]