The Svalbard Global Seed Vault recently welcomed 40,507 new seed samples from nine gene bank depositors. Seed deposits came from Latvia, Morocco, Taiwan, the United States, the Netherlands, Israel, Poland, Zambia and Italy. With the recent deposits, the vault holds 1.25 million seed samples.
Vault reaches million mark
More than 40,500 new seed samples from nine gene banks are being deposited into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 'Each time we deposit new seeds in Svalbard, it enhances global food security for the future,' says Sandra Borch, minister of Agriculture and Food for Norway.
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