The apocalyptic tunnel was added with a large number of seeds

In an effort to ensure global food security, 10,000 new seeds from around the world were sent to the anti-apocalyptic hatchery in the Arctic.

>>>Apocalyptic tunnel

Svalbard global hatchery was built on an island off the north coast of Norway. This place has stored and preserved 825,000 seed samples, representing 13,000 years of agricultural history of mankind.

The Svalbard tunnel is playing a role in supporting the network of seed banks around the world, which also store seeds but may be threatened by war, accidents and natural disasters.

Svalbard global hatchery is located on a Norwegian island.(Photo: PA)

The Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT), the international independent organization that manages the Svalbard tunnel, warns, protecting the diversity of world crops is "fundamental" to the mission of ensuring food security. global climate change. A series of seed transports to the Svalbard tunnel this month will help accomplish that goal.

Four shipments from key, key gene banks in Bulgaria, Colombia, India and Taiwan are bringing seeds from more than 100 countries around the world to storage tunnels. These include seeds of wheat, barley, corn, sorghum, millet, peanut, eggplant of Asia and Africa, as well as seeds of indigenous African vegetables, including beans corn, spinach, spider plants and jute plants.

According to GCDT, preserving the diversity of food crops and foods will help to propagate and develop crops that are resistant to changing climate conditions, such as better drought tolerance and resistant to higher temperatures.

Marie Haga, executive director of GCDT, stated: "The Svalbard global seed tunnel represents how we can create a long-term, sustainable and positive solution to feed the world forever. "Famine is a global problem and is increasingly urgent. If we continue today, real production will decline while food prices will escalate. Even more and more people will be hungry." than.

Crop diversity is essential if we want to provide more food, nutritious food and affordable food to the poor. Maintaining crop diversity as well as the abundance of genetic resources that bring to present and future generations, is useful not only for plant breeders, but also for farmers. people are feeding us all on this planet ".

GCDT is calling on governments, businesses, agencies, unions and wealthy individuals to contribute to building a $ 800 million fund to fund the preservation of permanent plant varieties.

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