I hate that, I should say. Based on my experience, they usually, workers came to the farm in Iran around 5, 6 a.m. and they left around 4 p.m. Narrator: Most saffron harvesters are women ...

Joe Kroon, farming on his family farm ... the Karoo Saffron, as his product is known, is exported to the US, as the country has imposed sanctions on the world’s biggest grower, Iran.