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

Published 2023년 6월 16일

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Ali Hosseini, a member of Iran's National Saffron Council, shared insights into the global demand for Iranian saffron, highlighting China, the UAE, Spain, Hong Kong, and Afghanistan as its main buyers. While the majority of these countries consume saffron, some serve as re-export hubs. Hosseini emphasized the need for the saffron industry to shift from raw material sales towards value-added products through processing. The National Saffron Council supports this transition by providing crucial industry insights to potential processors. However, Hosseini called for increased participation from both public and private sectors to establish more transformation industries, which he believes is crucial for the future sustainability and competitiveness of the saffron market.

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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