The need to define a mechanism to guarantee the supply of saffron
Gholamreza Miri, vice chairman of the National Council of Saffron, said: “Every effort, including encouraging farmers to sell saffron in the stockpile, which will protect the interests of farmers, will be supported by us, but in this regard they should be given the necessary training to be present on the stock exchange.
Gholamreza Miri added: “The amount of saffron production in Khorasan Razavi is 400 tons per year, but the stock exchange can only store seven saffron, therefore a solution should be provided to solve this problem.
He added: “It should be defined that the person who supplies the saffron in the stock exchange is surely a farmer, rather than buying a stock broker, saffron, and then returning the product to the stock as a farmer; that is, the stock exchange should not be considered as a delusional, The interests of the farmer go ahead.
Chairman of the Mashad Saffron Merchandisation Association said that in addition, farmers should be provided with a condition that the farmer can put his saffron on the stock whenever he wants to.
Miri added: “85% of Saffron’s output of Khorasan Razavi is exported, so saffron needs market stability and pricing through supply and demand.”
He continued: “Custodians should specify the price of saffron on the basis of the crop year so that the farmer can imagine that the price is not lower than the rate set by the government and after that the supply and demand must be determined during the year Price is in trades.
Vice Chairman of the Saffron National Council said that due to fluctuations in exchange rates, the price of saffron increased by 100 percent compared to the 2009 harvest by 96 percent, but since the main source of saffron was exported, the price increase was in the interests of the producers.
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