Final UN report records land rehabilitation as the leading farming priority

The final UN report relayed Iran’s Health Ministry claim that mines and unexploded ordnance killed or injured at least ten people daily in border areas. It identified continuing explosive hazards...

Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization told the UN team that high costs and specialist requirements had prevented conclusive surveys. The report described the need for detailed studies before...

Iran sought help studying polluted beaches, the Karun River, Gulf islands, seagrass, mangroves and water quality in affected provinces. The final UN report recorded these as priorities for...

The final UN report assigned crop and on-farm work to Agriculture, irrigation-water conveyance to Energy, and forests, pastures and fisheries to Construction Jehad. Agricultural recovery therefore...

Iran reported direct agricultural losses equivalent to 7,523 million dollars and reconstruction expenditure of 674 million dollars to date. The final UN report stated that farming represented 80...

The final UN report described levelling about 251,000 hectares of irrigated farmland and 53,730 hectares of rain-fed land in Khuzestan, Ilam and Bakhtaran. About half the associated land and...

Rebuilding needs included 47 large and 300 small pumping stations and deep and medium-depth wells. The final UN report reported about 75 percent recovery of deep wells, with little progress on the...

The final UN report listed reconstruction needs for 126 diversion weirs, 242 pumping stations and wells, and about 1,700 kilometres of main canals under the Energy Ministry’s water-resource...

Reconstruction of damaged water-resource works was estimated at about 20 percent complete. The final UN report forecast further completion by the end of the second plan period, conditional on...

The final UN report stated that about 18 percent of required farm machinery for resettled farmers had been supplied. Provision of remaining tractors and implements was planned through 1999, subject to...