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Rhode Island conditions excellent for growing world's most expensive spice: researchers

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-11-07

Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture researchers have found that Ocean State farms have the potential to get a share of the market as demand for saffron in the United States grows.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-11-rhode-island-conditions-excellent-world.html