Details of buying saffron in South Khorasan were announced
The head of the South Khorasan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization, stating that 16,807 hectares of farms in South Khorasan province are under saffron cultivation, said: It becomes.
Gholamreza Ghousi announced: The highest area of saffron cultivation in South Khorasan belongs to Ghaen city with five thousand and 79 hectares.
The head of the South Khorasan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization stated that the supportive purchase of red gold started a few days ago and will continue until December 20th. He said: It has been proposed to extend the deadline for the purchase of saffron to December 20th.
He announced the designation of four centers for supportive purchase of saffron in South Khorasan and specified: Saffron shopping centers in Birjand, Ghaen and Sarayan, Ferdows counties will buy the strategic saffron product of this year from saffron growers in the province.
Qousi emphasized that the supportive purchase of saffron is done in two ways: commodity exchange and physical, and said: in the commodity exchange method, saffron is delivered to the stock exchanges with the introduction of Jihad Keshavarzi managements and can be offered through saffron exchange symbols.
The head of South Khorasan Agricultural Jihad Organization continued: in the method of physical purchase, farmers refer to rural cooperative shopping centers and introduce saffron to shopping centers by introducing agricultural jihad, and experts examine saffron in terms of appearance and 30% of saffron price in cash and the rest It can be paid within three months after the announcement of the laboratory results.
Qousi stated that the purchase price of each kilogram of Negin saffron is 13 million Tomans and that of high quality saffron is 11 million Tomans.
He pointed out: It is predicted that 70 tons of saffron will be harvested from the cultivated lands of this crop in the province this year, which is estimated that saffron production will increase by 3.5% compared to last year.