Saffron and cooperative in Herat
In the past few years, many refugees from Iran returned to their Afghan homeland. In cooperation with another organization, Shelter Now gives the returnees a six-month agricultural training and a starter kit.
About 40 families who no longer own farmland have founded a cooperative under our guidance and support and cultivate jointly leased land. The women of these families have started their own project: the “Women’s Garden”.
Besides cereals, fruit and vegetables, they also grow the most expensive spice in the world: saffron. The “Shelter Saffron” has a high quality. It can be ordered in our office in Braunschweig.
Farmers can earn more with the production of high-quality saffron than with opium production, a real option.
Long-term report on the Saffron Project here as PDF for download:
Project report after completion of the Saffron Project-Dec-16.pdf (339 KB) (in german)
You can buy saffron from us! A wonderful birthday present.
Simply call and order: 0531 8853957
Or e-mail to: info@shelter.de
One gram Shelter Saffron costs € 9.50 (+ postage). There are quantity discounts!
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Harvest time in late autumn: The saffron fields bloom abundantly. All help to pick the blossoms.
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The women from the cooperative pull the female flower parts, the pistil, from the flowers. This is the saffron.
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The farmers proudly present the saffron. About 200,000 blossoms require one kilogram of saffron.