Final UN annex quantifies earth-moving needs for farmland rehabilitation

For a group of larger plants outside ground-fighting areas, recovery by 1990–1991 typically meant prewar production volume at about 60–70 percent of installed capacity. The annex did not equate prewar...

Larger factories outside ground-fighting areas kept output going through improvised repairs, later cannibalizing their own machinery or obtaining parts from other Iranian factories as spare stocks ran...

Khuzestan Sterilized Milk Company’s reconstruction aimed for output four times its prewar installed capacity. The dairy had remained devastated until the area became safe in 1989; the annex...

The mission proposed closer links between Iranian sectoral advisory units, an industry–university scientific council and overseas technology databases. These links could support authoritative advice...

The annex proposed using UNIDO and other organizations’ experience to connect Iranian industry with prospective foreign partners and assist contract negotiations. Potential partners included equipment...

About 70 scrapers worked on Khuzestan land levelling during the mission’s visit. Much earth-moving machinery had exceeded its mechanical life, with some over ten years old; resource constraints...

Bakhtaran’s earth-moving fleet fell from 53 units to twelve after borrowed equipment was recalled. Remaining levelling capacity was about 400 hectares yearly, while around 35,000 irrigated hectares...

Table E.1 listed 126 diversion works, with 27 percent completed to end-1991, 20 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and 53 percent for 1994–1999. These reported stages distinguish completed work from...

The water-resource table listed 242 pumping stations, with 15 percent completed to end-1991, another 15 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and 70 percent for 1994–1999. This program differs from the farm...

Table E.1 listed 1,674 kilometres of irrigation canals: 16 percent completed to end-1991, 14 percent scheduled for 1992–1993 and 70 percent for 1994–1999. These main water-resource works are...