Saffron exports earn $88m in five months

A total of $88 million worth of saffron were exported from
Iran during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-August
22), the spokesman of the International Relations and Trade Development
Committee of Iran's House of Industry, Mining and Trade said.

According to Ruhollah Latifi, the value of Iran’s saffron
export increased by 52 percent in the period compared to the same period of
time in the previous year.

He added that Iranian saffron farmers exported 81.521 tons
of the product valued at about $88 million in the mentioned five months, which
was also 66 percent more than the figure for the previous year’s same period in
terms of weight, IRIB reported.

Latifi said Iranian saffron was exported to 47 different
countries in the said five months.

According to the official, China, the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), Spain, Qatar, and Afghanistan were the top five destinations for Iranian
saffron in the mentioned period.

Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Canada, Bahrain,
Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, Sweden, Turkey, Malaysia, Switzerland, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Mauritius, Singapore, Thailand, Norway, Romania, Japan,
Bangladesh, Austria, South Africa, Pakistan, Philippines, New Zealand, Jordan,
Indonesia, Croatia, Brazil, Ireland, Denmark, South Korea, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Georgia were also among the importers of Iran’s red gold.

Iran is one of the world’s top saffron producers and over 90
percent of its production is exported to foreign destinations.