Rowhani Saffron Co. Rowhani Saffron Co. Rowhani Saffron Co., (Persian زعفران روحانی ) a company of wholesale and export Iranian saffron based in Mashhad Iran. The main activities of this company are conventional and organic saffron cultivation, packaging Saffron and export saffron to other countries. 90 - 93% of Saffron in world produced in Iran Khorasan provinces. Mashhad, capital of Khorasan province, the center of activity is the export of saffron and most saffron companies are in Mashhad. Saffron with scientific name Crocus sativus are an expensive spice and on several occasions it used to be In cooking, perfumes, industrial, health and medicine,
Trade and use of saffron France, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey (especially Safranbolu), California, and Central Africa. The high cost of saffron is due to the difficulty of manually extracting large numbers of minute stigmas, which are the only part of the crocus with the desired aroma and flavour. An exorbitant number of flowers need to be processed in order to yield marketable amounts of saffron. Obtaining of dry saffron requires the harvesting of some 50,000 flowers, the equivalent of an association football pitch's area of cultivation, or roughly . By another estimate some 75,000 flowers are needed to produce one pound of dry saffron.