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Mudflows and floods inflict $917M worth of damages to Iran

Society Materials 2 April 2019 15:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 2

By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:

Mudflows and floods caused damage to the agrarian sector of 12 provinces of Iran by 38.5 trillion rials (app. $917 million), Mohammad Mousavi, Head of the Disaster Management Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad of Iran, told in an interview to the ministry’s website, Trend reports.

According to Mousavi, the calculations were done for the 11-day period.

The CEO explained that the floods caused damage to the sown areas (in the amount of 17.2 trillion rials or app. $410 million), gardens (7.12 trillion rials or app. $169 million), livestock, poultry and fisheries (5.17 trillion rials or app. $123 million).

The amounts are in billions of rials:

Province

Sown areas

Gardens

Livestock, poultry and fisheries

Water, land, infrastructure and facilities

Total

1

Fars

1,002

1,023

138

417

2,580

2

Kermanshah

400

81

28

591

1,100

3

Semnan

55

70

65

-

190

4

Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari

260

230

520

500

1,510

5

Khuzestan

3,062

739

46

760

4,607

6

Sistan and Balochistan

68

27

2

98

195

7

North Khorasan

91

57

168

647

963

8

Isfahan

116

123

153

369

761

9

Lorestan

731

298

443

1,663

3,135

10

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

374

214

546

807

1,941

11

Golestan

10,000

1,600

2,400

2,000

16,000

12

Mazandaran

1,069

2,661

665

1,151

5,546

Total

17,228

7,123

5174

9,003

38,528

In case of continuation of floods and mudflows, the damage will increase.

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