Final UN report records the scale of land and canal rehabilitation

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...

Iran prioritized levelling land, restoring irrigation and supplying machinery and livestock to resettled farmers. The final UN report placed orchard, agro-industry, forest and pasture restoration...

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...

The final UN report stated that more than three million date palms and 5,000 hectares of orchards had been destroyed. About 15–20 percent had been replanted, illustrating the long recovery needed...