The 30th anniversary of the National Crop Species Center's Next Generation Seeds Ark invests 500 million yuan to preserve species for the next generation

Crop species are the foundation of a country's agriculture. Under climate change, they are precious materials for breeding new varieties that are resistant to adversity. The National Crop Species Bank, known as "Taiwan's Noah's Ark of Crops", is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It has been collected and preserved so far. There are more than 100,000 copies of seed varieties, but if the seed varieties are stored for a long time, they will lose their fertility and need to be updated in a timely manner. The Council of Agriculture has promised to launch the "Next Generation Seed Original Ark Project", and a total of 500 million yuan will be injected in the next 10 years to help Seed original renewal, continuation of the original seed preservation for the next generation to use. The National Crop Species Center (bank) located in the Wufeng Agricultural Experimental Institute in Taichung was opened in 1993. At the beginning of its establishment, in addition to referring to the ...