Final UN annex identifies sapling-production limits on tree-crop replanting

Rehabilitated farmland was to receive distribution canals designed for flows up to one cubic metre per second, with proposed concrete lining. The annex linked reduced seepage to limiting progressive...

In Dasht Azadgan, the annex identified Hofel as a 38-kilometre canal with discharge capacity of 110 cubic metres per second. Its scale illustrates why traditional canal recovery could involve...

Damaged or looted lift-irrigation equipment included government units of 150–350 horsepower and smaller private units averaging 35 horsepower. The annex distinguished equipment scales and ownership...

Affected farms had previously had about 0.5–0.7 horsepower of machinery per hectare. The annex described a resettlement target of about one horsepower per hectare, mainly using 65-horsepower tractors;...

Table E.5 listed machinery needs of 193,500 horsepower in Khuzestan, 53,000 in Ilam and 72,200 in Bakhtaran. Reported supply completion was 16, 30 and 15 percent respectively; horsepower is not a...

Table E.6 reported completion of 50 percent for extension centres, 25 for input warehouses, ten for the research centre, 50 for district offices and zero for quarantine units. The figures describe...

The annex reported 85,200 hectares of natural forest destroyed and 46,550 exploited for military purposes. These are different reported categories; progress in forest rehabilitation could not be...

Fisheries losses included 200 wooden vessels of 20–80 gross registered tonnes and 50 steel fishing vessels of 300 registered tonnes. The annex could not ascertain reconstruction progress; registered...

Reactivated plans for seven agro-industrial units in Khuzestan assigned each 18,000–23,000 hectares for sugarcane production. Initial arrangements were under way; the annex did not establish that...

The mission recommended modern irrigation management and demand-based supplies to improve water use and crop yields. Applied research could draw on experience coordinated with the International...