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Iran: The need to reduce the percentage of raw saffron sales per year

Saffron
Iran
Published Jun 16, 2023

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In an interview with ISNA, Ali Hosseini stated that the main buyers of Iranian saffron are China, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Hong Kong and Afghanistan, and said: Iran exports saffron to about 65 to 70 countries, but the largest volume of saffron is purchased by the aforementioned countries. do He continued: Some of these countries, including Spain and the UAE, are not major consumers of saffron and re-export to other countries. The member of the board of the National Saffron Council added: We have been proud of selling raw saffron for years, while we have to extract and use saffron by-products through processing industries. Farmers' concerns will be resolved by transformation industries, which will help to solve production concerns in addition to creating added value in the product and preventing raw sales. In response to what actions the National Saffron Council has taken in line with the development of transformation industries? He said: The National Saffron Council can ...
Source: Isna
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