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Global seed vault

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The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, protects billions of seeds. It is most important room in the world. -18° C in there. 5 doors in the secred room. There are 3 separate vault rooms which seeds are stored. But only one of them are used now.  3 million different spices of plants are stored there.  4 .5 millon seeds for samples. 2.5 billions seeds are stored inside of vault. 1700 other genebank comes from differnt countries. Last 1300 years they cultivate millions, if spices and plants.  1960 korean box there. Seeds are safe from both natural and manmade disasters.  All the countries of the world have their country's seeds stored in this world seed bank. It is noteworthy that during the war in syria they took and used the seeds of their country stored in this bank. In 2020 , india send urad dal to seed bank. It wasn't designed for visitation, it has captured the global imagination and has attracted some of the world's highest-profile dignitaries in the years. Since it