The world store seed decided to improve

2018-02-28 17:39

The world store seed decided to improve
On the island of Spitsbergen, located in the Arctic ocean in 2006 was built a unique structure – the world Bank-a repository of seeds.

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It was decided to store planting material for almost all agricultural plants existing in the world, in case the Earth will suffer a sad fate in the event of nuclear war or natural disaster, and then have to reseed it from scratch. The vault was built with the money of the Norwegian authorities and cost $ 9 000 000$. Over time it became clear that the project needs to develop, so Norway is ready to invest extra funds, reports Rus.Media.

Just on the expansion and improvement of the vault, the Norwegian government has allocated 100 million Norwegian kroner (12.7 million dollars). For this money it is planned to construct an additional service tunnel for access to the building, and a warehouse that will provide storage backup power supply in case of unexpected shutdown of the external power. In addition, the building will be debugged and running an additional cooling system, and organized the withdrawal of heat, which is emitted by it.

The Minister of agriculture and food industry in Norway John Dale argues that construction will begin very soon. The country’s authorities are confident that rescue valuable genetic material is a very important task, which requires more rapid implementation. Today in the vault are more than 4.5 million seeds of various agricultural plants (more than 890 000 samples from different countries), among which different varieties of rice, potatoes, corn, wheat, barley and other crops.