Svalbard Global Seed vault was established to preserve a wide variety of
plant seeds in an underground cavern. It is an assurance to reduce of
hunger & poverty due to the national disaster. Construction of the
Seed Vault, which cost approximately 45 million Norwegian Kroner (9
million USD), was funded entirely by the Government of Norway. The seed
bank is constructed 120 meters (390 ft) inside a sandstone mountain at
Svalbard on Spitsbergen Island. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened
officially on February 26, 2008. The first seeds arrived in January
2008. This vault can storage 4.5 million samples of different seeds in
the dry temperature of 0° F (-18° C). This storage process can protect
the seeds for the thousands of years. Svalbard Global Seed Vault ranked
no.6 on Time's Best Inventions Of 2008.
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