Growing saffron crocus at home can be a rewarding experience, giving you the opportunity to grow the world's most valuable ...

SWAT: Agriculture officials have said that they have planned to conduct trial cultivation of saffron in lower Swat and Kalam ...

Narrator: Once the crop starts flowering, harvesters have to work fast to make sure they can pick it all in time. Almost all of the saffron planted can flower within one week of the year.

The closure of the Attari-Wagah border, following a terror attack, has disrupted saffron supplies from Afghanistan, causing retail prices of top-grade saffron to surge over 10% to ₹5 lakh per kilogram ...

Kashmir’s saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms. A Kashmiri farming family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at their ...

They report losing up to 30 percent of their crops annually to porcupines. By 2024, federal government data showed Kashmir’s saffron yield had fallen to 2.6 metric tonnes, putting at risk a $45m ...