*GHETTOBLASTER » Today, 9:07 am » wrote: ↑
To get started I think you'll need to enslave a small work force of Asiatic women and children.
"The high retail value of saffron is maintained on world markets because of labour-intensive harvesting methods, which require some 440,000 hand-picked saffron stigmas per kilogram (200,000 stigmas/lb) – equivalently, 150,000 crocus flowers per kilogram (70,000 flowers/lb).
[6][32][33][34] Forty hours of labour are needed to pick 150,000 flowers "
There’s got to be a technological solution to that…O_O