A couple of days back, the International Taste Institute-- a Belgium-based institute for the evaluation and certification of consumer food & beverages-- re-throned Afghan Saffron with the crown of ...

In an effort to eradicate opium production, the Afghan government, international aid groups and private businesses are distributing saffron crocus bulbs to farmers in this region along the Iran ...

In the Western province of Herat, 90 percent of the former poppy farmers have switched to growing the pungent and yellow spice, according to the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics. Saffron has ...

“The soil in Kandahar is fertile because it is river soil, which suits saffron,” Ahmadi told Radio Free Afghanistan. “In addition, the saffron crop fits well into the crop cycles here because it only ...

(Photo: Xinhua) Afghanistan exported saffron and ferula asafetida worth 77.5 million U.S. dollars over the past six months, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Akhundzada Abdul ...

Kabul, June 13 (EFE).– Cultivation of saffron, the “red gold” and economic powerhouse in Afghanistan’s Herat province, has become a symbol of resilience, driven by Afghan women excluded by ...

KABUL, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The saffron harvest has increased in western Afghanistan's Herat province, which is popular for cultivation of the precious crop in the war-ravaged country. Saffron ...

Mohammad Salehi grew up helping harvest saffron on his family’s 10-acre farm in Afghanistan. As an adult, that spice became the center of a successful business in the U.S. After graduating high ...

Herat, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2018: A woman inspects red stigmas from a purple crocus flower for impurities in one of three saffron processing centers opened by Rumi Spice, a Chicago-based spice ...