tsth Posted February 23, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 297 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,586 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 193 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/09/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted February 23, 2008 Barroso to open 'Noah's Ark' for seeds 22.02.2008 - 17:31 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk Next week will mark the official opening of what has been referred to as both the 'Doomsday Vault' and more optimisically as the 'Noah's Ark' for seeds. On Tuesday (26 February) European Commission President Jose Barroso and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg are to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening a seed vault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest man Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 the oldest and largest international agricultural research institute in Asia and will be shipping 70,000 different varieties of rice from 120 different countries to the deposit. I thought there was only white and brown rice....but I guess when you start adding Minute Rice, Uncle Ben's, Lipton, and so on.....the numbers do start adding up. 70,000 different varieties. Who knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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