E-Learning & Certification of saffron work, a job in the field of natural resources, where the employee practices planting according to scientific principles. The educational standard of this job includes educational subjects such as planting and producing saffron, the correct way to harvest, dry and after harvesting saffron, packing and storing saffron. The educational modules of this standard have merits and abilities such as knowledge of botanical characteristics, suitable climate, cultivation method, how to choose the right onion for cultivation, irrigation, nutrition, pests and diseases and how to control them. Also, the right method and the right time to harvest flowers from the field, collecting flowers in the right baskets, transferring them to the right places to separate the stigma, observing the hygiene points, grading saffron which includes the stigma and cream. This job is similar to jobs such as barberry work, cumin work and other jobs Medicinal plants is connected.

Botanical characteristics of saffron:

Saffron is a perennial herb that flowers in early autumn. This plant has a tuberous underground stem called corm, which farmers call saffron onion. The weight of onions varies from 1 to 20 grams. The flower is the first organ that emerges from the soil in mid-autumn. Each onion has 1 to 3 purple flowers and each flower has 6 petals. The pistil is located in the center of the flower and has a glandular ovary, and a thin cream comes out from the ovary. The yellow cream divides into a 3-lobed orange-red transparent stigma. Three stigmas together with a cream that is about 5 cm, after drying, it forms the same commercial saffron.

Course Titles virtual learning Saffron Kar:

+ Choosing the right variety of saffron onion + Main requirements for saffron production + Preparation of saffron onion + Cultivation of saffron + Saffron maintenance during the growing period + controlling weeds, pests and important diseases of saffron + harvesting flowers + Extraction, drying and packaging of saffron + Marketing and economic justification of saffron

Prerequisites of the saffron work training course:

[list_negative] This course does not require special prerequisites and is taught from the basics. [/list_negative]