Afghan saffron,guaranteed at origin.
The Afghan Zafaran Consortium brings together an extensive network of saffron producers, from the farmer who grows it to the team that processes and exports it, headquartered in Herat. Written rules control every lot, and all saffron is processed and packed at origin under a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme, with lot-by-lot QR traceability. So that Afghan saffron reaches the world and its value stays with the families who grow it.
Farmer-level traceability.
Every pack carries a QR code. Scan it and you reach the region, the harvest and the growers behind it.
Full ISO 3632 analysis per lot.
Crocin, picrocrocin and safranal, moisture, extraneous and foreign matter, and artificial colorants, measured under ISO 3632-2:2010 for every lot. The analysis travels with every shipment.
FSSC 22000 certified processing.
Our processing and packing facility in Herat operates under FSSC 22000, a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme. Certificate available on request.
The Consortium
10 producers. One standard.
The Afghan Zafaran Consortium brings together its member producers in Herat, drawing on a large and growing network of farmers across the region, under one set of rules: how members are admitted, how saffron is purchased from growers, and how every lot is controlled before it is packed.
The Consortium was created within the ACEBA project, with one purpose: that Afghan saffron reaches professional buyers with the same guarantees a European origin scheme provides.
Traceability
From their hands to yours.
One code. Three answers.
Scan the QR code on every pack. It opens three answers.
See where it grew.
Satellite view of the cultivation areas behind that lot.
Meet the growers.
Their photographs, their stories, and the saffron each one contributed to the tin in your hand.
Check the quality yourself.
The full ISO 3632 analysis of the lot, alongside its certificate of origin and phytosanitary certificate.
Our position
No bulk. Afghan saffron, undisguised.
Around the world, origin countries have sold their best products in bulk, only to see them return under other names. The value and the reputation stayed abroad, far from the people who grew them.
Afghan saffron will not follow that road. We pack at origin, so the value and the name remain in Afghanistan.
Whatever the brand on the front, every tin still leads back to the field it came from.
From the field
See the work for yourself.
Harvest, processing, laboratory, the people of the Consortium. Published as it happens.
The people of the Consortium
Farmers Bringing Saffron to the Consortium Office
The partner brand
Marecibum x AZC
The districts
AZC Ghoryan District, Herat
The districts
AZC Zendajan District, Herat
The product
Superior Afghan saffron.
Grown across the Herat region, packed at origin in Herat. All our saffron is analyzed at origin in Herat, and regularly in international certified laboratories in Europe and the Emirates. Every lot carries its certificate of origin and its phytosanitary certificate.
Formats, grades and lot documentation available on request.
Trade enquiries
Working with professional buyers.
Specifications, grades and lot documentation for importers, distributors and food service.
Tell us your market and your volume, and we will answer with real documentation.