The first shipment of Greek red saffron is ready to be exported to China in the next few days, said Vasilis Mitsopoulos, President of the Kozani Saffron Producers Cooperative, in a Monday press briefing, ANA reports.
Following the completion of all bureaucratic procedures, he noted, only a pilot shipment of one kilogram of the highly valued saffron, prepared in one-gram packages, is being sent over to the most populous Asian country, “so as to better control all the stages of the supply chain in China,” he added.
As red saffron is an expensive spice, “it would not be desirable to risk large quantities in the first export,” he noted.
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