Need of High-Tech Seedbanks in Agriculture
Name: Foram Vithani
TOPIC: “Need of high-tech seedbanks in Agriculture”
* INTRODUCTION:
As we know that the population in now a days is such a big chalange. The impact of its is in every field,specillay in Agriculture. If there is more population, it needs more and more food. The food which came from crops of the agriculture fields. That crops have main born base called “seed”. And the protecion of the seeds is neccessary in time of increasing of population. So it needs the seedbanks which stores the seeds for a long time and in which the seeds can also be genetically modified.
There is one seed bank near Norwegian named ‘Svalbard Global Seed Vault’. Prior to construction, a feasibility study determined that the vault could preserve seeds from most major food crops for hundreds of years. Some seeds, including those of important grains, could survive far longer, possibly thousands of years.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.
It was started by conservationist Cary Fowler in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). Construction of the seed vault, which cost approximately NOK 45 million (US$9 million), was funded entirely by the Government of Norway. Storage of seeds in the seed vault is free-of-charge. Operational costs will be paid by Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Primary funding for the Trust comes from organisations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and from various governments worldwide.
TOPIC: “Need of high-tech seedbanks in Agriculture”
* INTRODUCTION:
As we know that the population in now a days is such a big chalange. The impact of its is in every field,specillay in Agriculture. If there is more population, it needs more and more food. The food which came from crops of the agriculture fields. That crops have main born base called “seed”. And the protecion of the seeds is neccessary in time of increasing of population. So it needs the seedbanks which stores the seeds for a long time and in which the seeds can also be genetically modified.
There is one seed bank near Norwegian named ‘Svalbard Global Seed Vault’. Prior to construction, a feasibility study determined that the vault could preserve seeds from most major food crops for hundreds of years. Some seeds, including those of important grains, could survive far longer, possibly thousands of years.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.
It was started by conservationist Cary Fowler in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). Construction of the seed vault, which cost approximately NOK 45 million (US$9 million), was funded entirely by the Government of Norway. Storage of seeds in the seed vault is free-of-charge. Operational costs will be paid by Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Primary funding for the Trust comes from organisations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and from various governments worldwide.