Opportunity is knocking for New Mexico to get in on the ground floor of growing saffron, a lucrative cash crop. Not only that ...

After years of climbing the corporate ladder, Steve Leach finally decided to give up the shirt and tie and find his bliss growing saffron. It started in February, when Leach tuned into a broadcast on ...

You've probably heard someone call saffron "red gold," and maybe you wondered if that was just marketing hype. It's not. This ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- At a sprawling government agricultural research farm in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, workers are now picking tiny purple flowers. Officials in the region have hailed ...

On sweeping fields once blanketed in lush purple, a thin and bedraggled crop of flowers is all farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir's saffron-growing region Pampore have to show for this year's ...

Three years ago, Steve Leach was looking for a way to supplement his family’s income and learn a new trade that he could eventually continue into retirement. So when the Swanton engineer, who works ...

Next month, a group of eager farmers will be attending the second annual saffron-growing workshop held at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The goal? Getting the inside scoop on cultivating ...

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HERAT, Afghanistan — The Romans used it to scent their baths, and ounce for ounce it was worth its weight in gold. Now, saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, could be the answer to ...

Farmers examine saffron flowers in India's main saffron-growing area of Lethpora-Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir state. TRF/Athar Parvaiz PULWAMA, India, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers say ...