High-tech Spice Park playing major role in maintaining quality of Saffron in Kashmir

Nov 25, 2022

Pampore (J&K): High-Tech Spice Park plays a major role in maintaining the quality of the world-famous Kashmiri Saffron in the Pampore town of Jammu and Kashmir. The purpose of the spice park is to improve the quality of saffron and to solve the problems of saffron growers of the valley. The high-tech spice park has 4 big halls along with 10,000 trays and 100 growers can use one hall at one time for the stigma separation process. They can also use the modern cold storage facility. The other important facilities in this high-tech spice park are the scientific laboratory and testing section where scientists are testing saffron and monitor other things, especially moisture of saffron. Earlier after picking the flowers of saffron, growers did the drying process at their homes. But this process was not giving them proper satisfaction. This traditional drying system has always affected moisture level and quality of saffron and as a result, the growers never got proper rates. But with the help of a high-tech spice park, all problems of growers have been solved and they are doing all the processes from harvesting to packing under one roof.