Ukraine has sent 773 samples of 10 agricultural crops to the Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported this .
This is the second transfer of Ukraine’s collection to the Arctic vault, and the first since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The shipment included seeds of triticale, barley, buckwheat, millet, peas, lupin, vetch, mustard, lucerne and clover.
Overall, Ukraine’s national collection comprises more than 154,300 samples. Together with the previous shipment, around 10% of the entire national fund has now been deposited in the Svalbard vault.
The initiative was implemented with the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Union, in cooperation with the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, the Crop Trust, NordGen and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.