Final UN report records large water-resource reconstruction requirements

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...

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...

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...

The final UN report described about 40 percent reconstruction of damaged farm-support buildings covering roughly 63,000 square metres. Remaining work was scheduled for completion by 1999.

The final UN report described Haft Tappeh sugar production restored to about 80 percent of its installed capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year. Recovery of agro-industry complemented land and irrigation...