{"id":10551,"date":"2024-12-11T18:07:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/khuzestan-village-hosts-saffron-harvest-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:37:26","slug":"khuzestan-village-hosts-saffron-harvest-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/khuzestan-village-hosts-saffron-harvest-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Khuzestan village hosts saffron harvest festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5286050.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 An annual saffron harvest festival was held on Friday in the picturesque tourism village of Haji-Kamal, situated north of Khuzestan province.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Ameri-Nasab, the deputy director of tourism for Khuzestan, expressed gratitude and congratulations to the warm and hospitable residents of Haji-Kamal and nearby villages.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that such festivals not only foster social vibrancy among locals and farmers but also spotlight the region\u2019s agricultural tourism potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the unique geographical features of northern Khuzestan, we are looking forward to hosting a variety of winter and mountain festivals in the snow-covered areas of the province,\u201d Ameri-Nasab announced.<\/p>\n<p>The one-day festival featured a range of activities, including the setup of tribal tents, exhibitions of medicinal plants, local products, and handicrafts. Visitors enjoyed horseback riding, demonstrations of traditional bread and soup-making, performances of local music, and guided tours of the saffron fields.<\/p>\n<p>According to available data, Iran exported over 25 tons of saffron valued at $22 million to 37 countries in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20 \u2013 May 20), according to a senior official with the Agriculture Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>With some 127,000 hectares of land under saffron cultivation, Iran produced over 238 tons of saffron last year which were dispatched to the domestic and international markets.<\/p>\n<p>AM<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/507379\/Khuzestan-village-hosts-saffron-harvest-festival\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 An annual saffron harvest festival was held on Friday in the picturesque tourism village of Haji-Kamal, situated north of Khuzestan province. Jamal Ameri-Nasab, the deputy director of tourism for Khuzestan, expressed gratitude and congratulations to the warm and hospitable residents of Haji-Kamal and nearby villages. He emphasized that such festivals not only foster &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[629,2990,1176,2991,113,117],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-festival","tag-khuzestan","tag-saffron","tag-thanksgiving","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}