{"id":7207,"date":"2022-11-02T04:33:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:21:27","slug":"kashmir-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kashmir-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kashmir Saffron:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>unique characteristics of Kashmir saffron<\/strong>\u00a0are its longer and thicker stigmas, natural deep-red colour, high aroma, bitter flavour, chemical-free processing, and high quantity of crocin (colouring strength), safranal (flavour) and picrocrocin (bitterness).<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>only saffron in the world grown at an altitude of 1,600 m to 1,800 m AMSL<\/strong>\u00a0(above mean sea level).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pampore region, in India, commonly known as Saffron bowl of Kashmir<\/strong>, is the main contributor to saffron production, followed by Budgam, Srinagar, and Kishtiwar districts.<\/li>\n<li>Kashmir saffron is a very precious and costly product.<\/li>\n<li>Kashmir saffron is renowned globally as a spice.<\/li>\n<li>It rejuvenates health and is used in cosmetics and for medicinal purposes. It has been associated with traditional Kashmiri cuisine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2020, Union Government has issued a certificate of Geographical Indication (GI) registration<\/strong>\u00a0for Saffron grown in the Kashmir Valley.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Mission on Saffron\u00a0<\/strong>is focused on several measures to improve its farming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/this-year-saffron-fields-to-spice-up-tourists-reel-life-in-kashmir\/article66081917.ece?homepage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the only saffron in the world grown at an altitude of 1,600 m to 1,800 m AMSL .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}