Located within the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, this formidable seed bank rises dramatically from. Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on a remote Norwegian archipelago for seeds to be stored deep within the permafrost. “In Norway, we have deposited 25 accessions of pigeon pea. On the small arctic island of Spitsbergen, it turns out. Bandal was one of the representatives from India who carried the deposit box from India to Norway in April 2014. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the worlds crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic. Bandal, former director of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources.ĭr. At Norway's Oya Festival, a Sea of Hands but Few. Seed samples from New Zealand, bearing the Kiwis’ flag, sit alongside an ornate box belonging to the Princess of Thailand. A Norwegian company is planning to create a doomsday vault to preserve the world’s most important music recordings for at least 1,000 years. We used the facility as an additional storage or a safety duplicate for the seeds at the National Genebank in Delhi,” said Dr.K.C. The vault has the capacity to store 4.5m samples in three vault rooms. On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault protects around 865,000 seed samples from all over the world.
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“It started as a small experimental set-up almost 10 years ago. Sometimes called the 'doomsday vault,' the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is seen as humanity's last hope against extinction after a world crisis. Norway plans to spend 100 million Norwegian crowns (13 million) to upgrade a doomsday seed vault on an Arctic island built 10 years ago to protect the worlds food supplies, the government said. The vault is a joint venture of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (which comes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research) and the Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (under Defence Research and Development Organisation) in eastern and southern Norway and rescued just before it disappeared. It currently stores seeds from cultures all over the world in an effort to preserve genetic diversity and defend against major food. One accession consists of a set of seeds of one species collected from different locations or different populations. Deep inside a permafrost mountain, Svalbard Global Seed Vault safeguards almost. The secure vault has a capacity to hold 4.5 million grains. At Chang La in the Himalayas, at a height of 17,300 feet, there is a storage facility with over 5,000 seed accessions.
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