Product Description

Creating demand for Afghan agricultural products helps create local economic development. Over *0% of the Afghan population is reliant on the rural agricultural economy. The success of the saffron industry not only helps farmers and women, but helps chnage the country of Afghanistan.

Saffron, also known as "red gold," is the most valuable spice in the world. It is handpicked and requires almost **5,**0 flowers to create a single kilogram of saffron.

With hot, dry winds over semi-arid lands, Afghanistans growing region is ideal for growing saffron. In ***6, the International Taste and Quality Institute of Brussels awarded Afghan saffron 1st place out of *0 competing regions.

Among the most prized spices in the world, saffron has a complex flavor that is both semi-sweet and slightly bitter. Also known as Red Gold saffron comes from the interior of the amethyst-colored saffron crocusand must be hand-harvested due to its fragility.

The flowers are taken from the field in the early morning as soon as they open and then transported to a facility where the three stigmas (attached to the crocus by yellow filaments called styles) are hand-separated from the blossoms. It takes **0,**0 stigmas (or **0,**0 blossoms) to make a kilogram of saffron.