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  2. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...

  3. Crop Trust - Wikipedia

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    It is designed to hold the seeds of some 4.5 million samples of different varieties of agricultural crops. [25] Primarily through the endowment fund, the Crop Trust provides most of the annual operating costs for the facility. With support from donors, the Crop Trust also assists selected genebanks in packaging and shipping seeds to the Seed ...

  4. List of seed packet companies - Wikipedia

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    D. Landreth Seed Company, established 1784; Fedco Seeds, established in 1978; Ferry-Morse Seed Company, established in 1856; Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company, established in 1866; Harris Seeds, established in 1879 [5] [6] [7] Hudson Valley Seed Company, established in 2009 [8] [9] J.W. Jung Seed Company, established in 1907; McKenzie Seeds ...

  5. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday' Arctic seed ...

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    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the world's gene banks in case of disasters, including nuclear war. Norway to spend $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday ...

  6. Arctic World Archive - Wikipedia

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    Piql is a Norwegian data-storage company that specialises in long-term storage of digital media. Piql and SNSK created the deeply buried steel vault out of a mineshaft of an abandoned coal mine. At the time of its opening as the Arctic World Archive on 27 March 2017, the Brazilian, Mexican and Norwegian governments deposited copies of various ...

  7. File:Hastings' Seeds Catalogue No. 65, Spring 1923 (IA ...

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    Expanding beyond the customary sale of seeds and plants, this new establishment also offered all manner of garden supplies, including tools and pots. The company continued under the leadership of Donald Hastings' son, Donald M. Hastings Jr. (1929-2013), until the family business was sold to an outside party in 1976 Collection processed in 2009

  8. File:Seed catalogue for 1917 - Mills Seed Co. (IA CAT31299856 ...

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    Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; ... File:Seed catalogue for 1917 - Mills Seed Co. (IA ...

  9. File:Seed reporter (IA seedreporter211unit).pdf - Wikipedia

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    FEDLINK - United States Federal Collection seedreporter211unit (User talk:Fæ/IA books#Fork8) (batch 1000-3000 #230520) File usage No pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed).