Final UN report records partial reconstruction of farm-support buildings

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...

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...

The final UN report described Karun sugar production reaching about 20 percent of its 250,000-tonne annual capacity. It contrasted this limited recovery with stronger recovery at Haft Tappeh.

Plans interrupted by the war for seven further agro-industrial units in the Ahvaz–Dezful region had been reactivated. The final UN report recorded renewed planning alongside the recovery of existing...

The UN team could not ascertain rehabilitation progress for about 130,000 hectares of forest, 753,000 hectares of pasture and fisheries damage because data were unavailable. The final report preserved...

The final UN report identified loss of topsoil, compaction and flooding as harmful effects on agricultural soil fertility. Restoring land therefore required more than clearing debris or replacing...