The wonders of Afghanistan’s saffron/ export more than 3 times the production + table
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr Reporter, goods smuggling is a sinister phenomenon that leads to disorganization of the markets; It doesn’t matter if the smuggling is from inside to outside the country or vice versa.
Currently, Iran is involved with both types of smuggling and sometimes the financial turnover of that number It is considered significant for the country’s economy.
Domestic production statistics
Iran is the main producer of saffron in the world so that 85 to 90 color:white”>% of market demand of this product is produced and supplied by Iranian saffron growers. According to the manager of the Medicinal Plant Project of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, this year 127,000 hectares of the country’s land The cultivation of saffron is allocated and expected to be about 350 to 350. =”background-color:white”> 400 tons of saffron should be harvested.
Official export statistics
Saffron exports in the first 6 months of this year are 57 thousand 101 kilograms (57.1 tons) worth 49 It was 1 million 465 thousand 960 dollars. This statistic has decreased by 41.5% in weight and 52.2% in value compared to the first 6 months of last year.
One of the country’s problems in business affairs is the lack of packaging of products and bulk exports, and this causes Some of the products are also packed in the destination country despite the official export and re-exported to the next destination under the name of the importing country.
This year, about 45% of Iranian saffron was exported in the form of packaging between 1 and 30 grams, and about 55% It was done in a package of more than 30 grams and in a bulk format.
Iranian saffron export destination
more than 93 The percentage of Iran’s saffron production is grown in Greater Khorasan. and be exported to the world market in the name of the same country in Afghanistan.
Iranian saffron was exported to 50 countries of the world, and Afghanistan in this table after UAE, Spain and China It ranks fourth. Export to this country was 6 thousand 908 kg in official form, of which 3 thousand 641 kg was carried out in the form of bulk export.
Production and export of Afghanistan
Next, let’s take a look at the statistics of saffron production and export from Afghanistan.
In the Mehr report, according to the announcement of the Ministry Agriculture Afghanistan, last year of this country 21 tons of saffron production but exported 67 tons.
Afghanistan Saffron Union announced that the investment in the saffron production sector has increased and announced that they hope the amount of production will increase to 30 tons.
The biggest consumer of saffron is China with 150 tons per year and India with around 50 tons. The proximity of Afghanistan to the big market of India, in addition to the zero export tariff, has made this country prefer the import of saffron from Afghanistan to Iran with a 38% customs tariff.
World Bank statistics about export volume
World Bank statistics show that only saffron exports from Afghanistan to India 84.289 kg was worth more than 34 million dollars. This statistic shows that India also re-exports part of the imports to the second destination because their annual consumption is reported to be 50 tons.
The following table shows the export of saffron from Afghanistan to about 30 countries (it is emphasized that based on According to the Ministry of Agriculture of this country, their production statistics last year was 21 tons).
