Striking ‘red gold’ with saffron farming in Algeria: Interview with Keltouma Adouane

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2025, 9:16 am358 ptsTop
The world’s most expensive plant, saffron, is as delicate as it is valuable. Each purple flower blooms for less than three weeks a year, and only its three tiny, fragile red stigmas are edible. Harvesting them is a painstaking process: picked by hand at dawn and dried with extreme care, as even the slightest…

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