SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): The income of women has improved with a three-foldincrease saffron yield in northern Jawzjan provincethis year, an official said on Tuesday.
Saffron corns were distributed to 200 farmers, including 125 women, in the provinces, for trial cultivation in 2013. Each grower cultivated 100 square metres of land with saffron.
Nearly 50 grams of saffron were produced by each plot in 2013.But last year, the yield rose to 120grams and to 150 grams of saffron spice in 2015 . . .
