Saffron is known as "Red Gold" due to its distinct flavor, rich color, and medicinal properties. Its high price is due to the time-consuming harvesting process and the fact that each flower ...

Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, taking hundreds of man-hours to harvest. Don't make this major mistake next time ...

There is new interest in growing saffron among small farmers in search of a cash crop, and among cooks and gardeners seeking ...

Indore's Keshar Parvat hosts fruit, wood and flowering trees Saffron, willow trees, olives, avocados, dates, and Teakwood, ...

PAMPORE, India -- Kashmiri saffron farmer Abdul Majeed Wani should be a happy man, as prices for the "world's most expensive spice" are up this year and production is down in top-grower Iran.

An curved arrow pointing right. Harvesting saffron requires a lot of physical labor to get the flowers from the field to final packaging. The harvesting process plus its distinct flavor ...

Farmers have sounded the alarm that the increasing porcupine infestation could be the final nail in the coffin for saffron, the "red gold," in the valley, as the rodents are not only feeding on ...

Saffron is central to national cuisines from ... far is inconclusive And yet the reputation of the spice, dubbed "red gold", still does not glister quite as brightly as perhaps it should.

Saffron’s modern gold rush began in 2015 at the University of Vermont, where the entomologist Margaret Skinner and the agroecologist Arash Ghalehgolabbehbahani began investigating the plant’s ...