Red Gold does not smile at Farooj farmers
On the other hand, there has been a lot of activity on such days in this city for several years, and the people of this area are either collecting saffron flowers or going to the sales center to buy flowers, or going to the bases to receive them. These products are for the purpose of cleaning it.
Some also go to the bases in plastic or containers to deliver this red gold and take their wages from it and dry it.
Red gold has been creating good jobs for workers, as well as the families of Farooj and the surrounding cities for several years, and they have been involved with it for a month and of course they are satisfied with it, but in the meantime, saffron farmers still have the same prices as last year. They are very complaining and say that the prices do not cost the farmer at all and keep them from continuing to work in the coming years.
The current price of saffron flowers is not economical
Mohammad Hossein Taybi Se Gonbad is one of the Farooji farmers who owns a 35-hectare saffron farm.
Pointing out that the saffron harvest has been started in North Khorasan for about 10 days, he added: The purchase and sale price of saffron flowers was initially 150,000 or higher, but yesterday at a price of 80,000 to 90,000 Tomans, it was bought from a farmer.
Taybi continued: There is no supervision over the purchase of saffron flowers in this city, and everyone has entered to buy.
In response to the question that the market for buying saffron flowers was created in order to clarify the price and centralized purchase of saffron flowers in Farooj, he stated: The price of flowers was not to be reduced from 150,000 Tomans by launching this market, but the rate Came down.
Taybi pointed out: the presence of brokers in the region has reduced the price of saffron flowers, and on the other hand, the point is that all brokers are in harmony with each other and all of them announce a price and the farmer is forced to Be able to sell your product at the same price because saffron flowers can not be kept and plasticized, in which case its value is reduced.
Given the outbreak of the coronavirus this year, we are not facing a shortage of workers, he said. Pay and make a profit according to his current expenses.
This saffron of Farouj’s work continued: The cost of a worker is 90 to 120 thousand Tomans, but a worker can harvest saffron flowers during the day, except for how much, and on the other hand, the amount of wages for cleaning saffron is 17 thousand Tomans per kilogram and should be about overnight. Three tons of saffron should be cleaned, as a result, the purchase price of saffron flowers at 90,000 Tomans is not economical at all.
If the trend continues, we will plow the land and plant wheat and barley in other years, he said.