Saffron is a pricy spice harvested from a crocus that flowers in the fall. Saffron, the world's most expensive spice, comes from the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a fall-blooming crocus with purple ...

Saffron can be grown indoors or outdoors, but it requires specific conditions and takes several years to build up a significant yield. Sprouting from the saffron crocus plant, saffron is an ...

And it can take 40 hours of hard manual labor to produce just 1 kilogram of high-quality saffron. Growing the plants isn't exactly easy either. David Smale: They're actually called corms ...

Friends-turned-co-founders Subhash and Ashish used YouTube tutorials, academic research, and sheer willpower to grow saffron ...

Seshadri successfully cultivated Kashmiri saffron in Kerala using aeroponic farming. Within a year, he earned Rs 12 lakh and has already trained 100 others in his innovative methods.

90% of the world's saffron is grown in arid fields in Iran. But harvesting all of that saffron comes at a price. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: Why Iran is the main producer of saffron? Because workers are ...

90% of the world's saffron is grown in arid fields in Iran. But harvesting all of that saffron comes at a price. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: Why Iran is the main producer of saffron? Because workers are ...

Ruth Alexander uncovers the story of saffron from crocus flower to kitchen, finds out about the labour-intensive harvesting process, and learns about the innovations in lab-grown saffron that ...