Create a free Manufacturing.net account to continue

Photo Of The Day: The Doomsday Food Vault

Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in strife-torn Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials said.

Feb 28, 2012
Mnet 127607 Fm0228 Photolead

(AP) — This is a Feb. 26, 2008 file photo showing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault near Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway.

Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in strife-torn Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials said. (AP Photo/Hakon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix Norway, File)