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Saffron supplies dry up as climate change shrivels Iran’s ‘desert gold’​



More than nine-tenths of the world’s saffron comes from Iran. It is known as “desert gold” due to its ability to thrive in drier climates and prized for its powerful aroma, rich flavour and deep colour.But changing weather patterns and water shortages are having a dramatic effect on the industry, according to producers and traders, leading to significant falls in yields that have pushed the price of the world’s most expensive spice to fresh highs.Growers in the Khorasan region that includes Torbat-e Jam said this year’s yields would be less than half those of 2022. “Total production is expected to fall to about 170 tonnes from nearly 400 tonnes,” said Ali Shariati-Moghaddam, chief executive of Novin Saffron, a leading Iranian producer and exporter.

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Iran has launched a major project to transfer desalinated water from the Persian Gulf to three provinces in its arid central regions
Raeisi’s website said in a report that the project would include a 730-kilometer pipeline for transferring up to 200 million cubic meters per year of desalinated water to Yazd, Kerman and Isfahan.

The project will expand a first line that is already supplying some 130 mcm per year of water from the Persian Gulf mostly to industries and mines in Kerman and Yazd provinces, said the report, adding that the project will take 48 months to complete.

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Persian Gulf water to be supplied to three provinces in central Iran

Iran launches a project to supply desalinated water from Persian Gulf to three central provinces.
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