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"OSLO, Feb 27 (
Reuters) - A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global
agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest
number of new contributors yet, a custodian of the remote facility said.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set in permafrost caves on an island halfway
between mainland Europe and the North Pole, was launched in 2008 as the
ultimate backup for the world's gene banks to protect plants from war, disease
and climate change.
The vault has received samples from across the world, and played an essential
role between 2015 and 2019 in rebuilding seed collections damaged during the
war in Syria.
On Tuesday, depositors carried crates of seeds into the vault's entrance, a
long narrow structure which juts out of the snow-covered hillside.
Twenty-three seed banks took part, nine of them for the first time, the largest
number of newcomers introduced at one single occasion, according to Crop Trust,
a non-profit that operates the facility along with Norwegian authorities.
First-time depositors included seed banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria and Zambia, Crop Trust said.
The crates arriving on Tuesday contained crops such as beans, barley, cowpea,
maize, rice, millet and sorghum, it added."
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