![]() The remoteness of the vault also helps protect it from other manmade problems. Westengen, Coordinator of Operation and Management of the SGSV from the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, Norway. The Global Seed Vault ensures those seed samples are always available. Michael Koch, Director of Finance were present from the GCDT along with Dr. This global network collects, preserves and shares seeds to further agricultural research and develop new varieties. Bansal on behalf of NBPGR signed the SDA and deposited the material with a message from the DG ICAR that was pasted on the Box carrying the material, which read - 'for the well-being of one and all on the planet earth'.ĭuring the above seed deposit ceremony, Dr. Ayyappan, Secretary DARE and Director General ICAR accorded approval for this first official deposit from India. ICAR from India becomes the 59th such institution to add for the first time pigeon pea seeds in the SGSV.Įarlier, Dr. ![]() So far, 58 institutions across the world have deposited their precious germplasm raising the total number of accessions conserved in the SGSV to over 0.8 million. The purpose of the SGSV is to ensure future food security by conserving rare seed material or 'safety duplicates' of food and forage crops already conserved in the national gene banks across the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on the island of Spitsbergen, the largest in the Svalbard archipelago, which surprisingly was not chosen for its stark. Built inside a mountain, this facility provides ultimate. The SGSV, commissioned in February 2008, is located in the far north, in the permafrost region, in the remote arctic island of Svalbard (Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, 780 North), only about 1300 miles from the North Pole. Across the Barents Sea and more than 1270 miles north of Oslo lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The seed vault is owned by the Norwegian government and administered. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is built into the side of a mountain, preserving seeds as an insurance against large-scale extinction of plant life. This was the first such deposit by India as 'safety duplicates' in the global gene bank, which is jointly maintained and managed by the Norway's department of agriculture and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). Operation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a collaboration between several players. ![]() ![]() Mandal, Director General (Life Sciences), DRDO and Dr. The purpose of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is to provide insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of crop diversity held in traditional. Ashish Bahuguna, Secretary (A&C), which also included Dr. The material was deposited on Apby the Indian delegation led by Sh. of India) has taken a step forward in securing its crop genetic diversity by depositing 25 accessions of pigeon pea in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV). First deposit of seeds from India in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for safeguarding nation's future food and nutritional security ![]()
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