{"id":2721,"date":"2019-12-01T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2019-12-01T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T17:36:08","slug":"saffron-cultivation-gives-new-hope-to-afghan-farmers-generated-35-billion-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Saffron Cultivation Gives New Hope To Afghan Farmers, Generated $35 Billion In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting before dawn has even broken, Afghanistan&#8217;s army of saffron pickers shift their way across sun-baked fields to pluck brightly the coloured crocuses that are providing the country&#8217;s farmers with a new means of income.<\/p>\n<p>The delicate pistil of the flower has for centuries been used in cooking around the world and because of its relatively high price has been dubbed &#8220;red gold&#8221; by those who rely on its cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>Joma Khan is one of the 156,000 seasonal workers who help harvest the spice, earning about $1 an hour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>afp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting before dawn has even broken, Afghanistan&#8217;s army of saffron pickers shift their way across sun-baked fields to pluck brightly the coloured crocuses that are providing the country&#8217;s farmers with a new means of income. The delicate pistil of the flower has for centuries been used in cooking around the world and because of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}