The threat of exiting immigration is waiting for saffron

The threat of exiting immigration is waiting for saffron

Ali Hosseini, a member of Saffron National Council, said: “About 350 tons of saffron are consumed in the world, the potential of producing Razavi and South Khorasan provinces alone is about 400 tons, because according to the Ministry of Agriculture, in these two provinces, about 100 thousand hectares of cultivated saffron In the case of a four-kilogram yield, which is the least expected of this land, it can be predicted that more than 400 tons will be produced in these two provinces this year and we should plan the same amount of exports.
He said that saffron consumption in Iran would eventually be 60 tons, adding that in current conditions, the price of saffron has fallen and everyone is waiting for the saffron to come to the market this year to resume exports, as the harvest season begins this November. . Unfortunately, until new requests are received, the future can not be foreseen.
A member of the National Saffron Council, saying that although 200 to 230 tons of saffron were annually exported, we should prepare ourselves for 400 tons of exports, adding that each neighboring country, such as Armenia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, etc., has the ability to produce saffron Can be considered a threat to Iran and Iranian saffron, because smuggling saffron onions will witness the extinction of this plant, so we must be vigilant and alert so that this migration can not happen because in the event of the disappearance of a farm of other saffron We can not easily reconstruct it, or like wheat and pot Thousands seed crops in the country, because that does not exist.
Hosseini said if Iran succeeded in producing saffron in Spain over the past three decades, while its production in Spain over the past 30 years was higher than Iran, due to the quantitative and qualitative increase in Iranian saffron at a more competitive price than The Spaniard was actually a bankrupt, and Spain, which was no longer able to compete with Iran, sold its bulwark on its neighbor to Morocco, and saw that after 10 years it had not been able to reconstruct its land and Morocco was one of the producers. Although a little bit of saffron has become.
He emphasized: During the past years, the level of saffron cultivation has increased, while we should instead seek to increase the yield of this product per unit area, which can easily be done by doing some measures to double the production per hectare The current statistics (4kg) should be increased and we should only seek marketing, marketing and production for target markets in such a situation.
In the first five months of the current year, 68 tons and 640 thousand kilograms of saffron worth 92 million and 623 thousand dollars were issued to 54 different countries, which is 26.48 percent by weight and 16.22 percent in value terms compared to the same yield in a year Past has increased.