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Our Pampore harvest, coded, lab-graded and sealed at IIKSTC under the Kashmir Saffron GI label. Pre-order at ₹800/g; ships from 1 December 2026.
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Pre-order · ships from 1 December 2026
Pay the pre-order price now; the jar leaves Pampore from 1 December 2026, then 4–8 days by courier. Cancel any time before dispatch for a full refund. Once the lot is on the shelf this jar sells at its regular price.
ISO 3632 Grade I — tested by IIKSTC
IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory, Pampore · Government of J&K · NABL-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025
If your jar fails the home water-bloom test, or its grade or batch does not match, tell us within 7 days of delivery and we refund in full — no questions asked.
Report TC118432400000049E · lot L20020644 · issued 5 October 2026 · Returns & refunds
See the full lab reportNine moments, one season
Roughly 160 hand-picked flowers go into a single gram. Our own film and photographs from Pampore, in the order it happens; the last frame is an illustration. Tap to go on, hold to pause.
A 39-second film of the saffron harvest in Pampore, Kashmir, set to music with no speech. It follows the crop from flower to thread, shot by shot:
Know what you are buying
The Kashmiri saffron grade names (Mongra, Lachha, Guchhi) say which part of the flower is in the jar. ISO 3632 is a separate lab standard for colour, flavour and aroma, and ours is Grade I. A jar worth buying states both; “A++” belongs to neither and means nothing.
Kashmiri saffron grades · Mongra, Lachha, Guchhi
Mongra, Lachha and Guchhi are the three types in the Kashmir saffron GI registration; Zarda and Choora are market terms. Pick a grade:
Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi are the three types named in the Kashmir Saffron GI registration, GI Journal No. 127 (1 January 2020); Zarda and Choora are market terms. More in our saffron grades guide.
Don’t take our word for it
Three checks, ten minutes, a glass of water. If ours fails any of them, tell us within 7 days of delivery and we refund in full. Two more checks are in how to identify real Kashmiri saffron.
In your kitchen
Traditional uses, each with its own read before you try it. Not medical advice.
Photographs are illustrations, not our kitchen.
This is the one jar we call GI-tagged, because you can check it. The saffron is our own Mongra from the family fields in Pampore — the same all-red stigma as our other two jars — taken as a lot to the India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Centre (IIKSTC) at Dussu, Pampore. There it is weighed and coded, a sample is tested in the centre's NABL-accredited laboratory under ISO 3632, the lot is graded, and it is packed on the campus in sealed glass carrying the IIKSTC Kashmir Saffron GI label and its lot code, under the Department of Agriculture, Kashmir. That label and code are what "GI-tagged" means on this page. Our other jars are grown inside the same GI area, but we do not put the mark on them.
Why a pre-order. The harvest comes in across late October and early November; coding, testing, grading and labelling at IIKSTC follow, and the lot is back with us in time to leave Pampore from 1 December 2026. Order now and you pay the pre-order price of ₹800 a gram. Once the lot is on the shelf this jar sells at its regular price, shown struck through above. You can cancel any time before dispatch for a full refund, and if the date moves we email every pre-order with the new date and a refund if you would rather not wait.
What arrives: the small sealed glass jar from IIKSTC with the black lid and the red "Kashmir Saffron" label — "100% Pure · Certified & Packed by: India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Center, Dussu Pampore · Department of Agriculture Kashmir (Govt. of J&K)" — and the matching red hang tag on its thread, whose back prints GI No. 635, Grade: GI and the centre's FSSAI licence number. Packed by us in our usual mailer. The Kashmir Saffron GI is registered by the Government of India (application 635, registered 1 May 2020) and names three types — Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi; this lot is Mongra, the all-red cut. Prime Minister Narendra Modi named our chairman, Abdul Majeed Wani, on Mann Ki Baat (27 December 2020) for selling GI-tagged saffron through e-trading at the Pampore trading centre; the source is linked on our Recognition page.
How to use it: bloom 8–10 threads in two tablespoons of warm milk or water for 10 minutes, then stir into biryani, kheer, phirni, kahwa or badam milk. Keep the jar sealed, away from light and moisture, and the saffron holds its colour and aroma for over two years.
Compare on facts
We grow it ourselves in Kashmir — so you can compare on facts, not marketing.
| What to check | Grown by usThe Heritage Kashmir | ElsewhereTypical online sellers |
|---|---|---|
| Where it comes from | Grown and hand-sorted by our own family in Pampore — the fields are ours | Outsourced from mandis, importers or re-packers. Most brands, however big, do not own a farm. |
| Proof of what you get | The IIKSTC Kashmir Saffron GI label and lot code on the jar, the lot's laboratory grade — plus a water-bloom test you run yourself | No verifiable proof — just a label |
| Freshness | Pre-order: the lot is coded and graded after the late-October harvest and leaves Pampore from the date on the page | Unknown stock age, often months old |
| Purity | Single-origin — never blended | Often blended, dyed, or re-packed Iranian saffron |
| Price | Best rate when you book direct on WhatsApp | Marked up by middlemen & marketplace fees |
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Order on WhatsAppThe doubts in your head? We’ve answered them here.

That this lot was taken to the India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Centre (IIKSTC) at Dussu, Pampore, given a lot code, tested under ISO 3632 in the centre's NABL-accredited laboratory, graded, and packed there in sealed glass carrying the IIKSTC Kashmir Saffron GI label and its code, under the Department of Agriculture, Kashmir. The Kashmir Saffron Geographical Indication is registered by the Government of India (application 635, registered 1 May 2020). The GI certifies origin; the laboratory grade certifies strength. This jar carries both.
Look at the red IIKSTC "Kashmir Saffron" label on the jar and the matching hang tag: "Certified & Packed by: India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Center, Dussu Pampore" and "Department of Agriculture Kashmir (Govt. of J&K)". Turn the tag over: it prints GI No. 635, Grade: GI, and the centre's FSSAI licence number 11022470000024. GI No. 635 is the Kashmir Saffron registration on the Government of India's GI Registry. Ask us for the lot's laboratory grade, then run the warm-water test: real saffron releases a golden colour slowly over 10–15 minutes and the threads stay whole. If the jar does not match this description, we refund in full.
It is the same saffron: our own all-red Mongra from the family fields in Pampore, the same fields the long-thread and Short Thread jars come from. The difference is the government label and the per-lot grade on the jar, not the strength of the threads. Buy this jar when you want origin you can check on the pack itself — a gift, a wedding, or simply certainty.
Because the lot goes through IIKSTC's coding, laboratory testing, grading and labelling before it is sold, in small lots, at the centre's price. That is work and time the ordinary jar does not carry. The pre-order price here is ₹800 a gram; once the lot is on the shelf the jar sells at its regular price, shown struck through above the buy button.
From 1 December 2026. The harvest comes in across late October and early November; coding, testing, grading and labelling at IIKSTC follow, and the lot is back with us for dispatch from that date. The parcel then takes 4–8 days by courier depending on your state. If the date moves, we email every pre-order with the new date and a refund if you would rather not wait.
Yes. Cancel any time before dispatch for a full refund to your original payment method — email or WhatsApp us with your order number. Once the parcel has left Pampore, the ordinary returns policy applies.
The small sealed glass jar from IIKSTC with its black lid and red "Kashmir Saffron" label, and the matching red hang tag on its thread — front: "100% Pure, Certified & Packed by: India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Center, Dussu Pampore, Department of Agriculture Kashmir"; back: "GI No. 635, Grade: GI", the centre's FSSAI licence and "Use by 24 months from date of packing". Packed by us in our usual padded mailer with our family-story card. The lot's laboratory grade is available on request.
No, and we say so plainly. All of our saffron is grown inside the GI area, in Pampore itself, but only this lot carries the IIKSTC GI label and code. Our Kashmiri Mongra Saffron and Short Thread jars are sold as what they are: our own harvest, tested ISO 3632 Grade I by IIKSTC, without the tag.
The Agriculture Production Department of Jammu and Kashmir, through the Directorate of Agriculture, Kashmir, applied for it; the Geographical Indications Registry of the Government of India registered it as application 635 with certificate 366 on 1 May 2020, published in GI Journal No. 127. The registration names three types of Kashmir saffron — Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi — and covers Pulwama (Pampore), Budgam, Srinagar and Kishtwar districts.
Not lawfully under the GI: the name Kashmir saffron is restricted to saffron grown and handled inside the registered area. It still happens, which is the point of the label and lot code on this jar — and of buying from a grower who can show you the field.
Yes — it is published. The IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory in Pampore, a NABL-accredited (ISO/IEC 17025) Government of J&K lab, tested our saffron and graded it ISO 3632 Grade I; the full report, report number TC118432400000049E, is on our Lab reports page with every value. Ask on WhatsApp which lot your jar comes from. ISO 3632 is the laboratory standard that measures crocin (colour), picrocrocin (taste) and safranal (aroma); Grade I, also called Category I, is its top band.
Our saffron is grown in our own fields in Pampore, inside the Kashmir saffron region registered as a Geographical Indication by the Government of India. Yes: our GI Tag jar is a lot of our own Mongra taken to the India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Centre (IIKSTC) at Dussu, Pampore, where it is lot-coded, tested under ISO 3632, graded and packed in sealed glass carrying the IIKSTC Kashmir Saffron GI label and its code. It is the third grade on this page, sold as a pre-order at ₹800 a gram and dispatched from 1 December 2026; our other two jars are grown inside the GI area but are not sold under the tag. Our chairman, Abdul Majeed Wani, was named by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Mann Ki Baat (27 December 2020) for selling GI-tagged saffron through the Pampore Trading Centre's e-trading system.
The Pampore Saffron Farmers Producer Company — a grower family in Pampore, FSSAI licence 11022470000019, checkable on the FSSAI portal. The family elder, Abdul Majeed Wani, is the company's chairman and the president of the Jammu & Kashmir Saffron Growers Association, so you buy straight from the grower family that leads Kashmir's saffron growers. The family works with the Directorate of Agriculture, Kashmir and trades through the India International Kashmir Saffron Trade Centre (IIKSTC), the government saffron park at Dussu, Pampore, where saffron is processed, grade-certified, GI-tagged and sold by e-auction. Photographs of the family's recognition, including a saffron-flower bouquet presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are on our Recognition page.
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“Excellent quality saffron! The strands look fresh and premium, with a beautiful natural aroma and colour. The quality is genuinely impressive, and the packaging was neat and secure. Very happy with my purchase. Definitely worth buying!”
Ahmad basha SyedGoogle review · October 2026
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